Some studies have noted that chromium has a benefit on lowering heart attack risk, and may help boost HDL levels. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has stated that an Adequate Intake (AI) for chromium is 25-35mcg per day, which was concluded by estimating the average amount of chromium a healthy American obtains from the foods they ingest. The AI for chromium is substantially lower than the Reference Daily Intake (RDI) of 120mcg.

The Harvard Health Publications states that the best ways to boost HDL levels are lifestyle habits of exercise and diet. But if those don’t help, supplementing with chromium may improve HDL levels. Some clinical trials have reported a benefit.

Dietary chromium is found in whole grains, nuts, broccoli, and green beans, which are all high nutrition foods. Most people do not eat whole grains, ever, do not choose nuts as a snack, and can’t stand green vegetables. Green vegetables that are overcooked are particularly repulsive to many.

The best anti-oxidant green, cruciferous vegetable compounds are found in NatureBorn.

Chromium has also been associated with the management of blood sugar. It has shown to assist the receptor sites in cells utilize insulin. Insulin resistance is the condition where you cells do not assimilate insulin, and can lead to Diabetes.

A whole food supplement containing unprocessed, unfragmented green vegetable compounds will increase your chromium intake in a natural way. It will be ingested with the nature-born co-factors and enzymes needed for proper digestion.

So yes, you can just take a pill and know that you are doing something good for health and future every day. Of course if you have disease symptoms you should see a health practitioner and get a proper diagnosis followed up with specific treatments. Most medical doctors would not object to your taking a whole food supplement along with other treatment, just ask if there is any reason not to.

Start with your diet and do the best you can to eat good fresh foods. Add to your natural health plan with a whole food supplement to feed your immune system well.

Since studies have shown that chromium in food brings benefits to your health that extracted, isolated chromium in supplements does not show, to date, opt for a supplement that also includes anti-oxidants, other whole food derived vitamins and minerals, and berry extracts.

Harvard Health Publications provides more details at http://www.health.harvard.edu.

A natural whole food supplement, preferably made from organic and wild harvested foods, will help you to avoid heart disease, cancer, high cholesterol, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, Alzheimers and other conditions of aging. That is the stuff we are made of.

Read the details here.

ScienceDaily (2008-11-01) — A growing body of research data suggests that consuming foods rich in polyphenols from grapes, including red wine, helps reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a review article in Nutrition Research.

NatureBorn provides your daily grape extracts!

Dr. Mercola, popular internet newsletter author has some comments about this. First, from his site:

“Two reports this week showed the flu vaccine may not be effective in preventing health problems in children.

One study revealed that flu shots in the past two seasons did not reduce doctor visits or the risk of hospitalization for flu in children age 5 and younger. Another showed that MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (a sometimes fatal drug-resistant bacteria that can accompany the flu), as opposed to the flu itself, is a main contributor to the growing number of child deaths attributed to influenza.

The first study suggested that a reason the vaccine did not prevent children from getting the flu was that the strains in the flu vaccines have mismatched the circulating flu strain in past years.

MRSA is a drug-resistant superbug that can piggyback on the flu and can cause outbreaks of deadly pneumonia. Secondary infections increase the risk of death from the flu more often than the flu itself.

In October’s Health Alert issue,  Dr. Bruce West, writes the following:

“Normally your organs of detoxification (kidneys, liver, etc) eliminate excess estrogen. That is one reason why detoxification or purification, which enhances the way your body detoxifies, is important, especially in cancer cases or those prone to cancer. The liver and other organs of detoxification use phytochemicals from vegetables (especially whole cruciferous, brassica vegetables such as brussel sprouts and kale) to enhance liver detoxification.” Health Alert is a wonderful monthly information publication which you can get from here. (Just like this site, it is for educational purposes and is not medical advice).

Dr. West discusses more details about why cruciferous vegetables are anti-estrogen, excellent for pre-menopausal women who may be at risk for breast or uterine cancer.

By the same activities in the body, the whole food phytonutrient components of cruciferous/brassica vegetables are also anti-macular degeneration. As well as providing good levels of flavonoids, the detoxification aspects may  contribute to improvements in macular degeneration.

So if you can’t stand green vegetables, or are too busy to prepare food all the time, the ingredients in NatureBorn will help you out in some pretty serious ways.

If you have been considering buying NatureBorn to earn money from your promotions of it, here is some good news – it is claiming fame already! It is currently featured in the Network Marketing Business Journal, Nov. 2008. Read the article here.

This article describes an uncommon but not rare side effect of a flu shot. If you want to support your immune system in a natural way, take a look at the amazing ingredients in NatureBorn.

It is always your choice.

If you are going to buy health supplements online, how do you choose? Watch this video and learn about the history of the food industry and how it affected the manufacture of vitamin pills and other supplements.

Do you feel guilty if you are too busy to plan meals for your family? Or just for yourself? How do you find natural vitamins or find natural health supplements online? When being healthy matters, and you know about the anti-aging, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory components of nutrition, how do you make it up to yourself or protect your loved ones from disease?

Fortunately the news about whole food supplements is spreading, and many moms, individuals, natural health practitioners and trainers know how to advise you about your health matters. Synthetic vitamins made in a lab (often from petroleum products) may break down chemically to resemble a specific vitamin. However, your body is smarter than that. It knows what is nature born and what is not.

The human body is genius at work. It is created to recognize nutritional factors that it needs to survive. Whole foods freshly picked have chemical markers that our body recognizes and knows how to process. Synthetic laboratory foods create an extra load on the liver and other digestive organs, which try to get them out of the way and store somewhere (in fat cells, dumped on joints, or other ways), or get excreted.

Sometimes the function of the colon or kidneys can be impaired significantly when extracted nutritional elements do not have the co-factors that whole foods provide, to be broken down effectively and utilized in the body.

This leads to inflammation, impaired functions, and develops into debilitating conditions such as diabetes, ulcerative colitis, artery and heart disease, cancers and other nightmares.

Extracted is the significant word here. A vitamin may be extracted from real food, but it is now separated from the co-factors that enable the human body to assimilate it, or break it down to be used. CoQ-10 is a popular known co-factor, but there are maybe hundreds we don’t know about.

Why does “an apple a day keep the doctor away” rather than a cheap vitamin pill? Or even an expensive vitamin pill? Amazingly, not everybody knows that fresh fruits contain many nutrients that are not present in pasteurized, bottled juices, or skinned and canned fruit. Nutrients get destroyed in the processing of foods.

If you are too busy to plan meals, package them and take them to work with you, or pack healthy school lunches, you are probably too busy to take the pile of pills you need. Vitamin A, B, (B1, B2, B3, and many more…) C, D, E, the list goes on. Minerals, enzymes, co-factors, that is a big heap of pills.

Wouldn’t it be nice to take under a half dozen pills a day and know you are giving your body healthy nutrition it can recognize, assimilate and also use to remove cell wastes, keeping your internal organs clean and clear? Certainly that helps you with your health goals, and helps you protect your loved ones from disease.

Being healthy matters. I would never suggest that you give up on eating fresh real foods at regular meal times. Yet, the problem of being too busy to eat well is partially solved by a whole food supplement that is packed with nature born ingredients to support your health and the well being of your loved ones.

A prime health supplement found online is NatureBorn.

On a search for the phrase “can’t stand green vegetables” a quarter million sites showed up. I read a few posts about this – some very humorous and some adamant that these veggies are not meant for human consumption. Burping and intestinal gas are frequent complaints.

The use of cruciferous vegetables has been documented for a few thousand years. Cabbage leaves were used to relieve inflammation, as a poultice as well as stop hair loss, remedy tumors, and even remove freckles. Richer in calcium than milk, broccoli, cauliflower,kale, and Brussel sprouts also are considered superfoods by juicers, vegetarians, and health conscious individuals.

They are not popular for flavor. Some find them indigestible. So how can we eat enough of these foods?

Cruciferous vegetables – broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage contain two antioxidants, lutein and zeaxanthin, that are associated with helping to decrease prostate and other cancers.

Lutein is associated with diminishing the risk of macular degeneration and cataracts. As an antioxidant, lutein is 10 times as powerful as Vitamin E. The macula is the area of the eye that receives the most light, and is therefore vulnerable to UV rays, and subsequent degeneration. Lutein is yellow, and filters out the blue UV light that can cause damage to the eyes. Lutein must be obtained from our diet. It is found in high concentrations in spinach, broccoli, and collard greens.

Zeaxanthan is the other antioxidant deposited in the macula, and it also blocks the UV rays, protecting our eyes. Both lutein and zeaxanthin should be ingested with food, as they are fat soluble.

Broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower have indole-3-carbinol, a chemical that can combat breast cancer by converting a cancer-promoting estrogen into a more protective type. So we can understand why The America Cancer Society promotes eating green vegetables.

Broccoli, especially sprouts contain sulforaphane – believed to aid in preventing some types of cancer, like colon and rectal cancer. It appears that the more bitter the broccoli is, the more potent this anti-cancer effect is. BroccoSprouts is a trade name for a broccoli sprout that has up to twenty times higher levels of sulforaphane than the levels found in mature heads of broccoli.

http://www.cancure.org/cancer_fighting_foods.htm has more details on this topic.

If you get intestinal gas from eating green and particularly cruciferous vegetables, it is not because of the vegetables. It is because you lack healthy bacteria in your gut. Increase your Acidophilus and bifudus intake and you will see an improvement after your intestines get more balanced. Of course see your health practitioner if this condition is extreme, or painful.

While raw vegetables may be best, if you really can’t stand them, try lightly steaming them and eating them with a little butter, maybe add a little lemon juice. Or after steaming, eat them cold in salads, disguised by the other flavors in your green mix and your favorite salad dressing. Try.

Your last resort is a whole food supplement containing these cruciferous superfoods. Even if you like eating them but are on the go and miss healthy meals, do not compromise your immune system by going without. One way or another, get the elements born in nature and meant to help us thrive.

If you can’t stand green vegetables, make an effort to ingest them in some form. The anti-cancer, antioxidant, anti-aging and nutrient benefits for your cells, blood, colon, and your energy level is worth it. YOU are worth it.

Get green vegetables even if you can’t stand them! Combined in a whole food supplement with antioxidant berries, Tahitian Noni and other important vitamins and minerals, move toward your best health with NatureBorn.

Anti-oxidant berries and fruits from both northern and tropical areas give us an edge on our wellness. New super food mixtures containing phyto-nutrients, vitamins, flavinoids, enzymes and co-factors lead the partnership with omega 3 oils, green vegetables and salads, and lean proteins, to create our optimum health.

Why could berries be called a super food? They are that wonderful combination of tart/sweet. They go with ice cream, fresh cream, smoothies, and can go into muffins, cakes and cobblers. Yum!

Berries, such as raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, and strawberries contain ellagic acid, which may help to prevent certain types of cancer. Ellagic acid is also found in processed berry foods, like frozen berries or jams and jellies.

Acerola cherries are high in vitamin C. This is just one example where you can get vitamin C from food, instead of something like ascorbic acid, which is NOT vitamin C in its complete, bio-available form.

A super food among the berries is the blueberry. Four ounces of blueberries contains 15% of the recommended daily value for vitamin C. Blueberries contain anthocyanins, a color-creating pigment, and flavinoids. (Flavinoids are found in deep red and blue pigments of fruits, wine, herbs and teas). Flavinoids protect against oxidation and sunlight. They protect against eye damage from the sun. They also contribute to preventing blood platelets from sticking together, promoting blood and heart health.

Blueberries are a natural laxative. Also, juices made from blueberries or cranberries contain a substance that is has shown to be useful to many, in helping to relieve urinary tract infections.

The noni fruit has been around for as along as Polynesians, Hawaiians and Southeast Asians can remember. The trees are proliferate with leaves, fruit, and seed oil that has been the natural remedy for parasites, and other infectious and degenerative conditions. The best noni (like any other produce) comes from the non-industrialized tropical areas where soil is contaminant-free.

Other less known superfood berries are bilberry, lingonberry, aronia, and elderberry. These berries are showing up in better food products, and anti-oxidant mixtures and juices.

Other healthy fruits and berries are black currant, pomegranate, concord grape, cranberry, and both red and black raspberry. A mouth-watering list.

If you are diabetic, or counting calories, whole food supplements can give you the content you need to be healthy, without the sugar. No one left behind!

What leads the partnership in your nutritional life? (Fire those donuts!). With frozen super food berries and tropical fruits like noni and pomegranate available in various forms, eating well is easy.

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