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Myth #5. Nutritional supplements are too expensive! Do you really want optimum health? Do you really want maximum protection? It will require that you take more than just one pill a day - and this may cost you more than the ten cents a day you're used to paying for inexpensive and ineffective store-bought vitamins. In order to get the proper amounts, you may need to spend a dollar or two a day for this kind of protection. When some people hear this, they complain, 'Two dollars a day!? Just for vitamins? That's too expensive!" But I respond, "Inexpensive, as compared to what? Quadruple bypass surgery? Radiation therapy? Death by diabetes?" Compared to that, nutritional supplements are a bargain. People who say silly things like "vitamins are too expensive" are obviously not aware of the danger they are in. Believe me, cheaper is not better! As for me, I don't want to put the cheapest stuff I can find into my body and hope that I won't get heart disease. How far do you want to miss heart disease? By an inch or by a million miles? Your body is priceless. Don't turn it over to the lowest bidder or the latest fad. Let's look closer at which specific nutrient supplements have been proven to be effective. Beta Carotene Here's how the right amount of beta carotene can help protect you from heart disease. In one Harvard study of a group of male physicians with signs of heart disease, it was found that those who took beta carotene supplements daily had only HALF as many heart attacks, strokes, bypass surgeries and cardiac deaths as the doctors taking dummy pills. But it took two years for these positive effects to kick in. [83] That's why you can't just try a vitamin for a couple of weeks. If you want to lower your risk of heart disease, stroke and even cancer you need to take your beta carotene every day [84] Vitamin C Research shows that Vitamin C can protect you from heart
disease. According to Dr. Linus Pauling, double Nobel
laureate, the primary cause of cardiovascular disease is a deficiency
of And to prove his point, a recent government survey found that Americans who regularly took vitamin C supplements (even in small amounts) had 37 percent fewer fatal heart attacks.[86] And if you're trying to lower your cholesterol or your blood pressure, vitamin C supplements can definitely help. [87], [88] But the real power of vitamin C is in protecting you from "The Big C" - cancer. There are literally dozens of recent studies that overwhelmingly show that vitamin C may reduce the risk of cancer. In fact, some studies show that people who eat the most vitamin C have half the risk of getting cancer. [89], [90] According again to Linus Pauling, "The more vitamin C one ingests, the less chance there is of developing breast cancer; the less vitamin C one ingests, the more chance there is of developing breast cancer. " [91] Not only does vitamin C help protect you from heart disease and cancer, it helps you live longer. Dr. Pauling believed that we could add an extra 12 to 18 years to our lives by taking mega-doses of vitamin C ... and he proved it by living to age 93 himself. [92] Again, the research backs him up. In one California study of people aged 50 or older, it was found that those "... with a higher intake of vitamin C were found to have a total death rate only 40% of that for those with the lower intake of C ... This decrease in the death rate corresponds to an increase by eleven years in the length of life." [99] Of course, taking vitamin C doesn't mean you won't get cancer. After all, Dr. Pauling himself succumbed to prostate cancer. But he was born at a time when the average life expectancy was only 47 years. And he lived to 93. He was right ... he added at least 18 years to his lifespan. Even small doses of vitamin C can help. According to one UCLA study only 300 milligrams a day can add 6 years to a man's life and two years to a woman's life. According to Jean Carper in her excellent book, Stop Aging Now!, "The study showed that vitamin C takers lived longer despite smoking, overweight, lack of exercise and even poor diets." [94] Is there any doubt that you need to protect yourself daily with extra vitamin C? [95] If you want to add from 2 to 18 years to your life, vitamin C will be part of the answer. Vitamin E can help you live longer! Studies have shown that people who have taken 400 IU of vitamin E a day for at least ten years lowered their risk of heart disease by 90%. It also lowered the rate of death from heart disease by 78% and lowered the rate of death by heart attack by 58%. [96] Conclusion: if you want to reduce your risk of heart disease, you'd better take your E The most vitamin E you can expect from your diet is 10 to 25 IU a day but the research shows that it takes 100-400 IU to provide the protection we need. [97] To get that much vitamin E from food, you'd have to eat 28 cups of peanuts, 400 apricots or 650 prunes A DAY! [98] Obviously vitamin E supplements are the simplest way to get your vitamin E. |
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