Make Your Health—and Your Bones—a Priority: from Shaklee
Health Sciences
To all the multitasking moms, daughters, aunts, sisters, and
nieces, we're dedicating the month of May to you. Mother's Day is just around
the corner, and National Women's Health Week is May 13–19.
If you're a parent, you spend a lot of time taking care of
your family. Have you done anything for yourself lately?
Perhaps you have improved your diet or hit the gym more
often. While these are both important to include in your health regimen, you
should be especially mindful of your bones.
Your bones are constantly being broken down and rebuilt. In
fact, every 12 months they completely replace themselves—all 236 of them!
To do so effectively, your bones need all the help they can
get. This is especially true for women because gender, menopause, and smoking,
as well as eating disorders such as anorexia, can accelerate bone loss and
contribute to the development of osteoporosis, a condition in which bones
become porous over time and are more likely to break.
According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation,
osteoporosis affects 44 million Americans, 80% of whom are women.
The good news is osteoporosis is not inevitable. There are
things you can do now to ensure stronger and healthier bones in the future:
Consume
adequate amounts of calcium.
Most women ages 18 to 50 need about 1,000 mg of calcium per
day. Women over 50 should increase that amount to 1,200 mg per day, which
equates to consuming four daily servings of dairy products such as milk or
yogurt. Fortified soy milk and dark, leafy green vegetables also are good
sources of calcium.
For some extra bone-health insurance, consider taking a
calcium supplement, which is best absorbed when consumed in amounts of 500 mg
or so and taken with a meal.
Get plenty of
vitamin D.
Vitamin D plays an important role in helping your body to
absorb calcium. Recent studies suggest 80% of adults may have insufficient
vitamin D levels in the blood. Some health experts recommend getting
1,000–2,000 IU per day. If you don't know what your vitamin D level is, ask
your doctor for a vitamin D blood test.
Fuel your bones
with other key nutrients.
Calcium and vitamin D aren't the only nutrients your bones
need. Magnesium contributes to bone strength; vitamin K may help protect
against hip fractures; and zinc, copper, and manganese all are needed for
proper bone formation.
Exercise,
exercise, exercise.
It not only helps build strong bones, but it slows down bone
loss. Strength-training exercises that work your upper body, such as your arms
and upper spine, are great—especially when combined with weight-bearing
activities such as walking, jogging, and stair-climbing.
It's never too late to start improving your eating,
exercise, and supplementation habits to help maintain bone strength and
integrity.
Here is more
information on choosing the right nutritional program with calcium and Vitamin
D supplement:
Foundation:
All nutritional programs should start with the basic foundation and then only
add additional nutrients, like more calcium.
A good foundation product is Vitalizer,
which is designed for individuals like men, women and those over 50 and comes
with or with iron and with or without Vitamin K in case you take blood
thinners. And what’s great about Vitalizer
is it comes with a money back guarantee. Feel better in 30 days or your
money back!
Calcium: Getting
enough calcium may be a challenge for those who are lactose intolerant or who
do not consume much dairy. Calcium in the right amounts and in a form that is
easily absorbed by the body is extremely important. For if the body can’t
absorb the calcium from the tablet, it can’t benefit.
A very good calcium product that is proven to break
down and get absorbed by the body is OsteoMatrix.
But
Calcium doesn’t work alone to build and maintain strong bones. Think of
calcium as the bricks in the bone-building process. Bricklayers know that a
house is only as strong as the mortar that holds it together. And the
nutritional mortar for building and maintaining strong bones includes vitamins
D and K, magnesium, boron, zinc, copper and manganese.
Vitamin D: Recent research shows that vitamin D—the "sunshine
vitamin"—offers a multitude of benefits including supporting healthy heart
function, immune and bone health. But, up to 80% of Americans may have
insufficient levels of this essential nutrient.
Vita-D3 provides 1,000 IU of high potency vitamin
D3 to help your body thrive!
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Questions? Contact me and I will be happy to help! I am here
to help you!
Remember,
“Ignore Your Health
& It Will Go Away!”
Wishing you all the best,
Julie
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