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This week Michael Jackson, a man who was an icon to many, died from a sudden heart attack. Sadly, many of us know someone close to us who died from cardiac arrest or a massive heart attack. It is shocking and devastating. When heart attacks don’t kill you, they can leave you very sick.

Heart disease affects people of all ages, not just older folks. One of the first indicators may be high blood pressure detection, unless of course one is unfortunate enough to have heart problems already discovered as a child. That high blood pressure is usually monitored by a doctor and medication is often prescribed.

Other problems related to heart disease are clogged arteries, high cholesterol, even diabetes. Prevention is key to many illnesses and diseases, including cardiovascular disease. Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I say that we must be in charge of our own good health. Doctors talk about prevention to some extent, but their main job is to treat illness and disease. We have to plan to build our own good health.

How can we live a lifestyle that helps prevent cardiac arrest and heart attack? First, let me say that we are more educated now about healthy lifestyles than ever before in the history of man, or at least we have the opportunity to learn if we want it. Still, it is disappointing that there is still so much heart disease in the world today.

We know that we should get regular exercise and eat well, including diets with fresh fruits and vegetables, minimal white sugar and white flour, low fat, and try to stay away from processed foods and fast foods. We should get good rest and we should try to manage the stress in our lives. We need to eliminate smoke, both from smoking and second hand smoke. And we should keep a healthy weight, and that means lose weight if we are overweight and especially if we are obese.

I know, and you know, that most of us can’t ‘be good’ all of the time in regard to eating. I think if we make good choices most of the time, that can make up for foods that are not necessarily good for us like the burgers and fries, or the sweets. For me, those good choices most of the time are the natural nutrition supplements that I take ALL OF THE TIME, every day in fact.

Nutrition can build good health. That has been proven. From a high quality, pharmaceutical grade, daily multivitamin all the way to an anti-aging, resveratrol supplement that can fight aging at the cellular level where illnesses like heart disease and cardiac arrest start, there are options to build better health.

Fish oil, b-complex, magnesium, co-enzyme Q10, Vitamin E and soy protein are all ingredients that are heart healthy and available in pharmaceutical grade natural nutrition form. When we take our supplements on a daily basis, just like we would take our medications, we can get fantastic results in the way we feel each day, our overall health right now, and in building good health for the future. I can’t count the number of times that I hear people say they forget to take their vitamins, or a 30 day supply will last someone for six months. To get the best results, proven benefits of being healthier, we need to take our food supplements every day.

Cardiac arrest and heart attacks cause irreversible damage, including losing one’s life. Sometimes that happens and there doesn’t appear to be a logical reason because the person was seemingly healthy or even ‘doing all the right things’. Most often though, there are warning signs that are not being managed well.

Diahreah is a problem that people don’t like to talk about so much. Constipation and gas fall into the same category. Unfortunately, digestion problems like these affect a large percentage of us. We tend to be quiet about things like abdominal bloating, intestinal bloating, or burping. We might joke about some of the foods that can cause these unpleasant feelings, but the specific digestive problems and symptoms are just not comfortable to discuss.

Here’s the thing. If we don’t address digestion issues, most of the time they don’t go away by themselves. I have personal experience. At a very young age, I was having problems in this area and 1) I was very uncomfortable discussing it with my doctor, and 2) it was affecting my life in ways I didn’t like. I remember when I was around 20, after suffering already for quite a few years, thinking that I didn’t want to live my whole life feeling either in pain or feeling sluggish.

After getting serious about finding a solution, I started doing some research. What I found was that it wasn’t so much that something was wrong with me. It was more like what I was eating, or not eating, was producing these nasty symptoms like bloating, constipation, and intestinal gas, that I didn’t like. Now I had to be willing to make some changes so that my body’s digestion system would function properly and I would feel better.

You hear the expression, “You are what you eat.” It is true. We don’t eat enough fiber. We do eat too much processed foods. We don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables. We do eat too much white sugar and white flour. We eat on the run a lot and most of those choices are not healthy.

There are good reasons to address these problems of digestion. The main reason is that if we don’t do anything about them, they compromise our good health. Certain digestion problems that increase inflammation in our bodies make our bodies unable to absorb the nutrients that we need to be healthy. If we aren’t getting important nutrients, we can get sick.

Inflammation is a huge issue today that is affecting people’s health. It is believed to be at the root cause of many illnesses, including diseases of the intestine and colon. Inflammation is associated with diet as well because it is the imbalance between Omega-3 (we do not get enough) and Omega-6 (we get too much) fatty acids in our diets that can cause inflammation.

The good news that I found, and for everyone, is that there are solutions. We can choose to eat better, including more fruits, vegetables, and fiber. We can choose to avoid processed foods, caffeine, sugar and white flour as much as possible. We can learn how to maintain enough digestive enzymes and keep the acid level in our stomach where it should optimally be. We can feed our bodies natural supplements including vitamins and minerals that we don’t get enough of from our food and that build good health.

For managing symptoms while we work on those natural solutions, there are nutrition choices that work very well for specific digestive symptoms. These include probiotics to balance and heal our digestive tracts, digestive enzymes to help us digest our foods, peppermint and ginger to soothe our stomachs, and pure fish oil supplements to get more Omega-3’s. I also used a natural laxative product that worked very quickly in regulating my digestive system and taking away the discomfort. I can’t say that I was surprised when I found out later how popular that product was, and still is, 25 years later.

For people with intestinal symptoms, life can be very unpleasant, and good health can deteriorate. On the other hand, when digestion problems are addressed, intestinal bloating, diahreah, constipation, and gas can all be issues that are no longer part of daily life. Nutrients start getting absorbed more effectively, we feel so much better, and our overall health improves now and for the future. Life is good.

For many, running is a way to keep in shape, have sustained energy, fight aging, and just feel good. For the serious runner, all the way down to occasional runners, it is important to have the right gear. Shoes make all of the difference in the world because running is challenging to the feet without quality foot wear.

Knowing the arch that your foot has can be helpful in determining the needs that your feet have when you run. There are low arches, high arches, and neutral arches, each with their unique considerations in regard to cushion, stability, and motion control.

All four of my children played basketball. The girls also played soccer, and the boys played baseball. Running is involved in all of these sports and I have seen many foot and ankle issues with children who played on these team sports. One thing that was encouraged was buying good shoes for these active kids. The same is true for adults. The pounding of running can take its toll on feet that are not adequately fit for shoes, and protected.

I like a combination of quality and value. Quality is important because of the results that are delivered. It is a fact that with running shoes, the same as with anti-aging nutrition, there exists a difference in quality of products (be it materials or ingredients), technology, and benefits delivered, from brand to brand.

Being able to access quality reports of running shoes and even watching videos about different brands allows the buyer to do comprehensive research before making the purchase. The different options for obtaining information help make the shopping experience more enjoyable as well.

Support, cushioning and stability should be more important than price, however it is a reality that people have different budget levels. I was recently introduced to ShopWiki, an online retail site that finds you the best deal on quality running gear. Shop Wiki searches the internet looking for all sources of the product you are trying to locate. It would be similar to comparing how Google searches the internet to return the most relevant search results, and unlike other shopping sites that find you products from stores where they have an affiliate arrangement.

I like the idea of finding quality products for the best price. Having a service search the internet for me saves time and money. The opportunity for my family to find running shoes, and other gear like pedometers and heart rate monitors, from the convenience of our home and getting the best deal available was a great discovery.

There has been an increase of searches for resveratrol scam since the highly advertised ingredient was found to be a potent anti-aging nutrition supplement. The reason for the questions is that so many companies have put a resveratrol product on the market after scientific research was announced through national media sources. I don’t know about you but I prefer a resveratrol product with a satisfaction guarantee over one with a scam potential attached to it.

The problem with almost two hundred resveratrol products for sale is that many of them are not potent enough to provide significant results, and that is creating concern about the efficacy of resveratrol in the fight against aging. This is not an issue with resveratrol, but with the difference in potency, quality, and formulation since they all combine to make a worthy product.

Resveratrol is currently in research for drug development, possible in pill form. While that is years out, we do have resveratrol available in supplement form. When I did my own personal research of other brands, I was shocked to find that many of them have very little resveratrol in the products. The clinical research that has suggested measurable anti-aging benefits with resveratrol is based upon a much higher dose than what many products on the market contain. The bottom line is that people are going to be disappointed when they don’t get the results they expect, and this puts a black cloud over the industry.

Natural nutrition supplements, including vitamins and herbs, are not regulated by any governing body. This means that you have to do your homework and find a brand that you trust will put the amount of ingredient that has been studied to help build health inside the product. It is also important to insure that the amounts that are listed on the label are actually inside the product so that they will perform as they are intended (remember that nobody is in place to oversee this on our behalf). Last, the ingredients need to be high quality and in a formula that your body will absorb.

When I evaluate a nutrition brand, several requirements are present: science, safety, quality, and efficacy. Does the company have a reputable, in-house science team that conducts research and clinical testing on their own products, and not simply make a product that is either new or popular? Are high quality ingredients demanded by the brand and do they require ongoing testing of those ingredients for quality assurance? Do the products have a track record of performance and integrity?

Resveratrol scam is a legitimate search because when it comes to nutrition that we are putting in to the body, we must demand quality and that includes potency and performance. Value is another consideration. If one is to compare a product with a price tag of $2.83 per serving of the recommended amount of resveratrol that can fight aging, with another product that may cost $.99 per serving but you need 10 servings to get that same potent amount, well there really is not a comparison.

Science and research has brought us revolutionary new ways to fight aging, and to get the desired results we need specific amounts. I encourage everyone who would like to use resveratrol to help live a longer, healthier life to take the time and do their own research for a brand that will deliver the intended benefits, not a resveratrol scam.

We go about our lives each day and they are full and busy lives. How much are you thinking about your body that is aging, or anti-aging choices? What are we missing in regard to our good health when we don’t focus on a healthy body every day?

This video brings home the point about focus and what we can miss. Have a look:

Today, we have a lot more information available to us about building good health and how to fight disease than we have ever had throughout history. So why is it that disease rates are up, overweight and obesity has become an epidemic, and people drag through life feeling tired, sick, fat, stressed, and even depressed?

Diet has a lot to do with how we feel. What we put in our body is going to determine the results we get. The nutrients we get in our food, and by taking supplements, can build a healthy body that is full of the energy and vitality needed to exercise regularly, sleep well, eat healthy, feel great, fight disease, and love life. We have the answers. The key is the focus and the awareness choices we make each day.

Do you want to build good health? Do you have an anti-aging plan? Be aware, and most likely you will be happy with the results that you get.