calcium

Calcium and vitamin D are essential in our diet and not so easy to get unless you eat and drink a lot of dairy products.  So have a look at the information provided by the source below, and re-think your shopping list.  If you have difficulties getting enough vitamin D and calcium via foods, especially in the winter time, you might want to consider Nature Made Calcium Tablets with Vitamin D, 500 mg, 300-Count Bottles (Pack of 2) as a supplement to your diet.

Via: BC HealthFile

What is calcium and vitamin D?

Calcium is one of the many minerals that you need to be healthy. Calcium is very important to ensure strong, healthy bones and teeth. It also helps muscles and nerves to work properly. In addition, calcium may help you to manage your weight and blood pressure, and play a role in preventing colon cancer. Vitamin D helps you to absorb and use calcium and has other health benefits.

How much calcium and vitamin D do I need?

Recommended Calcium Intake
Age (Male and Female)
0-6 months 210 mg/day
7-12 months 270 mg/day
1-3 years 500 mg/day
4-8 years 800 mg/day
9-18 years 1300 mg/day
19-50 years 1000 mg/day
Over 50 years 1200 mg/day

Recommended Vitamin D Intake

Age (Male and Female)
0-1 year 400 IU/day
1-50 years 200 IU/day
51-70 years 400 IU/day
Over 70 years 600 IU/day

People with osteoporosis may need more calcium and vitamin D. Check with your doctor.

What foods contain calcium?

Breastfeeding is the best way to meet your baby’s calcium needs. Infant formula provides calcium for babies who cannot be breastfed.

Dairy foods are very high in calcium, especially milk, yogurt and cheese. Other good sources include calcium-enriched orange juice, rice beverages, and soy beverages. For more information, see Food Sources of Calcium below.

What foods contain vitamin D?

There are only a few food sources of vitamin D. Good sources of vitamin D are fortified foods and beverages like milk, soy drinks, and margarine. Check the labels on these foods. Fish, liver, and egg yolk are the only foods that naturally contain vitamin D.

If you do not eat vitamin D rich foods often, you may want to consider taking a vitamin D supplement. Most multiple vitamin supplements contain vitamin D. Breastfed babies under 1 year of age need 400 IU of vitamin D from a supplement each day. People over 50 need extra vitamin D and should take 400 IU from a supplement each day.

More Information and Lists of Calcium and Vitamin D Sources

The information might be worth while, but beware of the attitude.  The author,  Clifford Mee, says:

It was once said by a wise man, “You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost his savor, where can it be salted? It is therefore good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

Well, this ” wise man” is much more than that…  Anyway.

Via: American Chronicle

Clifford Mee

As you begin to read this article you will be amazed at how threatening high blood pressure issues are and at the same time how simple the remedy is . . .

Cutting-edge research shows that for the vast majority of people, natural salt consumption does not raise blood pressure. The truth is avoiding salt is dangerous to your health and may even kill you.

One study in the journal of Human Hypertension (13:777-80, 1999) concluded that substituting table salt for potassium, magnesium, sodium salt . . . 9 out 0f 20 elderly hypertensive patients experienced an 11 point drop in their daytime systolic blood pressure. And it turns out that natural sea salt rich in natural potassium, magnesium and sodium helps to normalize healthy blood pressure levels.

Unless you’re sodium-sensitive, chances are your high blood pressure stems from a lack of the correct ration of calcium, magnesium and potassium.

The cold truth is good salt has gotten a bum rap, like so many other natural remedies that have provided superior health benefits for ages. Do you recall the old TV commercials from the ´70s that would say, “It´s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” in an attempt to convince you that margarine was better than butter? It seems mainstream media´s creedo is, “If you´re gonna lie, lie BIG!”

If we only knew then, what we know now!

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If you’ve been having trouble sleeping at night and you are looking for natural sleep aids to help with you insomnia, here’s a list of some of the most popular natural sleep remedies. I hope they will help you to get to sleep at night and finally get all the rest that you need.

Melatonin

Melatonin is probably the most well known natural sleep aid. Melatonin is one of your natural hormones and it is produced when your body converts Seratonin into Melatonin and it helps make you drowsy.

It is especially helpful for shift workers and other people who have had their regular sleep cycles disturbed due to the unusual hours that they are now keeping. So if you work second or third shift and you find it difficult to get to sleep, you may want to try taking some Melatonin about a half hour before bedtime.

Valerian Root

Valerian Root (Valeriana officinalis) is an herb that flowers near the end of spring. It has a long history of use as a sleep aid and it is available over the counter in many European countries. It is not a sleep aid that will have an immediate effect on most people as it takes time to work. It may take as long as a month of regular use to achieve its full effect. But it is well known for producing a calming and deep sense of relaxation which should be able to help you sleep much more easily. You can take valerian root in a capsule form, or as a tea or tincture. Generally, you should limit your use to no more than three months.

Chamomile

Chamomile (Matricaria camomilla) is another flowering herb. Usually the dried flowers and leaves are used to make a tea which you would drink before bedtime. Unlike Valerian, chamomile has an immediate effect and is usually helpful for occasional insomnia. It is also very easy to find as most supermarkets stock chamomile teas in their tea and coffee aisle. In addition to drinking chamomile tea about a half hour before you are ready to go to bed, you can also try putting some chamomile sachets inside your pillow case or under your pillow.

Calcium & Magnesium

Calcium and Magnesium are two vitamin supplements that taken together should help improve your ability to stay asleep at night, though they may not necessarily help you fall asleep. But if you find yourself frequently waking during the night, then you might want to consider it. Many people don’t have enough of either mineral in their regular diet so a calc-mag supplement is a good idea anyway and usually you can find them in a combined supplement.

Just keep in mind that if you’ve recently been suffering from chronic insomnia symptoms, it may be wise to visit your doctor to make sure there isn’t an underlying cause that needs to be dealt with. Also, natural herbal remedies are as likely to cause side effects and other symptoms as chemically derived pharmaceuticals so it is a good idea to see your doctor in any case before using any herbal remedy on a regular basis.

If, like me, you would prefer a method without side effects and in which you don’t have to take any drugs or herbs, Sleep Tracks is an excellent insomnia aid. It uses brainwave audio technology to help you fall asleep in the short term, it is a complete sleep training course designed to permanently cure your insomnia. You also don’t have to worry about allergies or the potential side effects of herbal supplements.

For more tips for dealing with your insomnia naturally, be sure to visit my site on natural sleep remedies.