In a previous Healthy Science blog, Supplements 101: The Basics of Dietary Supplement Labels, we offered a few simple tips to help consumers discern dietary supplement quality by careful product label reading. There is, of course, much more to making good dietary supplement choices. Let’s consider the Council for Responsible Nutrition’s (CRN) guidance, “One Dozen [...]
The foods we choose to eat each day have a huge impact on our long-term health and well-being. We all know this, but we don’t necessarily allow what we know to change our behavior. Did you know that our food choices can heavily impact the world around us? When we purchase over-processed, pre-packaged foods, we’re often looking for the easiest and quickest ways to feed ourselves and our families. We usually aren’t thinking about how the food was produced or how that process could be harmful to farm workers, farm animals or the environment.
Did you know that 95% of vitamin/mineral supplements sold in North America today are synthetic?1 In most cases, that means you’ll find rocks, petroleum and coal tar in the supplements you’re taking to help you maintain a healthy life. A bit shocking, isn’t it? It’s a mantra that we at Mannatech® have placed at the very center [...]
In 1977, when the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs issued “Dietary Goals for the United States,” their primary goal was to discourage excessive intake of food components linked to chronic disease. This was the first of many governmental attempts to influence America’s dietary choices. It can be argued that subsequent confusing [...]
Independent, hard-working, goal-oriented, confident… these are just some of the words used to describe members of the Baby Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964. One characteristic of Baby Boomers that those of us at Mannatech especially appreciate is their ongoing commitment to maintaining health and wellness. With the high cost of health care, in [...]
Once again, Mannatech’s excellence in educating the public about nutrition and health has been confirmed by a panel of experts. Mannatech’s blog HealthyScience.net was bestowed a Winter/Spring 2011 Web Health Silver Award by the Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for professionals who work in consumer health fields. The Web health awards program honors [...]
Recent comments by T. Colin Campbell, Professor Emeritus, Cornell University, have questioned the validity of isolating individual nutrients from food and conducting randomized clinical trials with them. He states that conducting such trials is a seriously flawed hypothesis and that more effort must be expended in order to understand the breadth and depth of health [...]
In late November 2010, the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine (IOM), an independent nonprofit organization that provides unbiased and authoritative advice about health to those in government and the private sector, released a report discussing new vitamin D (and calcium) DRIs* for North Americans1. Governmental regulatory agencies of the food and dietary supplement [...]
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