Supplements And A Healthy Diet

We are all more mindful of our health these days, almost certainly because not so many of us work strenuously physically any more, our diet of junk food has turned us into blobs and the health care industry is continuously warning us how unhealthy we are in order to sell us more drugs. Whatever the reasons, most individuals are striving more to take care of themselves.

There are different ways to attacking this difficulty of being unhealthy and some of the reason for this depends on why you are unhealthy and some of it on your personal approach to life. For example, some individuals will realize that they have got into an unhealthy rut and will attempt lifestyle changes like exercising more and eating more healthily, whereas others will buy a load of pills and hope that they work.

Then there is the middle road. We are busy and we do not all have an hour a day to spend at the gym and some of us could not work out even if we wanted to. So, the middle road, might be to exercise as frequently as you can by walking or practicing yoga at home; eating more healthy food, that is foodstuff that you can eat raw or that you cook yourself and by taking a couple of supplements.

Which supplements should you opt for? Well, that actually depends on your diet. There is not much use in taking calcium tablets if you eat cheese sandwiches for lunch, a T-bone steak for dinner and drink milk each day, but there may be a decent reason for taking calcium supplements if you are a vegan.

I have a friend who will not eat vegetables and particularly greens, but, knowing that his diet lacks fibre amongst other things, he eats porridge for breakfast and snacks on fruit. Another friend hates fish, he cannot even look at it, but he is aware of the importance of omega 3 essential fatty acids and so he takes it in the form of capsules. He almost certainly gets more omega 3 than I do and I am partial to fish.

So, the first thing to do is note down everything that you eat for a week or two and then analyze what is lacking in your diet. The analysis may be above you, although it probably is not, but you could take your diary or food to your doctor or dietitian. It might surprise you a great deal to find out precisely what you eat over a week.

As a topic of interest, the majority of rural Thais do not eat beef or produce cheese or drink milk, so over the centuries they have added small bones to their diet. In the West if we get a small bone in our mouth, we tend to remove it, but a Thai will crunch it to tiny articles and swallow it - fish bones, small bird bones, frogs bones. Not only does it replace the missing calcium but it keeps their teeth strong in a country that is only now developing dentistry for the masses.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a number of subjects, and is now involved with pure omega 3. If you would like to know more, please visit our web site at Omega 6 9