SUPPLEMENTS IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH
The old saying ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away’ has a simple truth but today with the lack of nutrients in our soil and the amount of chemicals that have been used in growing some of our food, is a basic ‘good diet’ enough? Not according to David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., and Director of the UCLA Centre for Human Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles. He said, "We now have a substantial body of data showing that if everyone took a few supplements every day, they could significantly lower their risk of a multitude of serious diseases. 
The Council for Responsible Nutrition published ‘Optimal Nutrition for Good Health: The Benefits of Nutritional Supplements’, a comprehensive report on the most recent scientific data on vitamins, minerals, fibre, carotenoids, fish oils, and other nutritional supplements. It demonstrates that supplements could be helpful in protecting against chronic diseases and conditions such as osteoporosis, birth defects, heart disease, stroke, infectious disease, macular degeneration, and cataracts.
The report’s author, Dr. Annette Dickinson, Ph.D., CRN's Director of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs said "While it's sometimes argued that consumers can theoretically get everything they need from diet, the fact is most people fall short. Poor dietary habits are the norm, not the exception."
Dr. Lester Packer, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, was on a panel of physicians and scientists who reviewed the report. He observed that "It is difficult to obtain protective levels of some nutrients solely from diet. We know that generous intakes of the antioxidant vitamins C and E are required to reduce the risk of some chronic diseases. For instance, the amount of vitamin E believed to protect against heart disease is at least 100 international units (IU) per day, but most researchers think the optimum amount is more likely to be 400 IU. Supplements are clearly required to meet that level."
Health care costs run into many millions of dollars annually out of the public purse. If the use of supplements could improve people’s health it would prove the maxim ‘prevention is better than cure’ true in more ways than one. As well as saving the trauma to the patient of some long term health problems it would also have the potential to save public funds.
The report suggested daily use of four nutritional supplements--vitamin E, vitamin C, calcium, and a multivitamin with folic acid. Potential benefits reported were cutting people's risks of having heart attacks by 40 percent, protection of vision during aging, prevention of many hip fractures annually, and reduction of babies born every year with neural tube birth defects like spina bifida. In addition, it was reported that multivitamin use might substantially reduce some disease processes in the elderly.
Today we are fortunate that we have access to many potentially health improving supplements beyond these four simple suggestions.
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