Quarter of Chinese adults are overweight, obese: US study (AFP)

AFP - Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday.

"Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food." Hippocrates

If you are healthy and eating a healthy and well balanced nutrition, you should have no need for supplements. Your food should be your supplements.

If you have any nutrients deficiency you may need some extra help from supplements. A great way to boost your supplements intake is juicing fruit and vegetables.
To juice fresh fruit and vegetables is probably the healthiest way to take supplements; it is a treasure of supplements in a glass in the most digestible form. These juices are almost like a blood transfusion.
I warmly recommend organically grown fruit and vegetables which are richer in nutrients and free from chemical toxins.

If you choose to get an extra boost from regular supplements, you should choose a reliable company selling natural nutrients. You want your supplements to be as natural as possible, of high quality and in the proper quantity. No chemicals and no synthesized supplements wanted, those are just poor quality replicas.

Why a supplement should be natural?
We need supplements that our body can digests and absorbs. Otherwise you are literally throwing your money away. What our body cannot absorb, it rejects and eliminates. Worse, what the body cannot reject becomes a waste in our body; if we are lucky it will not become toxic.

Why the proper quantity?
For a supplement to be effective it has to be in a certain quantity. If you take too small a quantity, you may not get the desired results. Our body needs a certain l arginine hcl l ornithine hcl powder of each nutrient to functions at its best.
If you take too large a quantity, most of the time it may have no consequence, since the body will get rid of what it doesn't need; it will just be a waste. But some supplements in too large quantity are an overload on the body, and some can even cause more damage than good.

That is why it is so important to have a good digestion and 2-3 bowel movements a day. We can nourish our body with the best food and the best supplements Mother Nature provides, if the body cannot digest properly the nutrients and eliminate properly, everything will be a waste of time and money.

A good way to improve digestion is to eat dietary fibers. Fresh fruit, raw seeds and fresh raw vegetables are a great source of fibers, which regulate bowel cleaning and shorten the transit time of foods through the intestines; especially the green leafy vegetables. Why not try a green salad every day and see if it is helpful.

The best fiber supplement I know is ground flaxseeds; add it to your salads or smoothies to increase your intake of fibers. It will increase as well your intake of omega-3 essential fatty acid which helps synthesize other oils. Our nutrition is usually lacking this essential nutrient. I would need another article to write about all the goodness of flaxseeds and flaxseed oil.

My next favorite fiber supplement would be psyllium husk which really create healthy and better bowel movements. If you add those fiber supplements to your diet, it is recommended to drink at least 2 liters/quarts of water. Water will also ease bowel movements and re-hydrate our body.

It is recommended to check with your health professional or your nutritionist which supplement is best suited for you.

To your health and your ideal weight
Isabelle Epstein, Isabelle@HealthyNutriMania.com
Dedicated to healthy nutrition and a healthy life style

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