I’m beginning to go shop in health sections and at health stores. I’m looking for health product recommendations, and splendid reasons why I should partake of them.
Got to have products for the sharpening of mind as well as products for the healthiness and cleanliness of inner body. So shoot away so I may look up what you are recommending me.
A product I can recommend, which can act as a food substitute, is Ensure plus nutrition shake, to help gain or maintain a healthy weight. As read on the bottles. Milk chocolate and butter pecan are Ensure’s most delicious flavors.
They don’t exist.
Eat a balanced diet and save money.
Ask yourself: Why do those who eat all this “health food” and take “health” supplements also are so gung ho on detoxing? Are there toxins in their “health” products?
I agree with running coach’s general point that ‘‘health products’’ are generally a waste of money.
But I will give a plug for fish oil. I started taking it on doctor’s orders when I tested with high cholesterol. Not only did my cholesterol go down (with nutrition and exercise, of course) but my skin cleared up which was a completely unexpected side effect. I used to take medication for my skin in high school and the fish oil worked about as well as prescription meds. I’m guessing it’s only one factor in the cholesterol lowering, but I’d bet money it’s a cause of my skin clearing up, because any time I miss a dose, I break out again.
(Also, Ensure is regularly given to old people who can’t eat in order to keep them alive, so it can’t be that bad.)
If you must drink your meals (and some people must, due to myriad health reasons), you can make something cheaper, more nutritious and better tasting than Ensure with a blender, yogurt, eggs, milk (or lactose free milk), frozen fruit, oats and wheat germ.
If you can handle milk okay but don’t have the time or strength/dexterity to run a blender, Carnation Instant Breakfast tastes better and is a better nutritional choice for most people (lower in carbs, higher in protein), although it lacks the small amount of fiber that Ensure has. Adding a little wheat germ, chia seeds or any of the stir in fibers will fix that. http://careresponse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Ann-Arbor-Nutritional-Comparison-of-Drink-Supplements-vs-Food.pdf
Ensure is not used or recommended because it’s the best option. Ensure is widely recommended because it’s convenient, has name recognition, and it will help keep you alive when you cannot eat enough calories from food. It’s also sold to hospitals at insanely low cost, which is why so many of them use it - Ensure’s manufacturer knows you’re likely to buy what you saw them use at the hospital.
Build up in the gut? Build up of what? What in the hell are people eating?
If you think you have have “layers of build up in the gut”, you need some roughage. Eat a salad, eat some oatmeal, drink plenty of water. Enjoy a good poop, and your gut will be fine.
You do not need to do anything to remove “toxins” or “build up” from your body. Humans have ***entire organs ***devoted to doing just that!
A multivitamin won’t hurt you, but if you eat a decent diet, it probably isn’t necessary.
Here’s my recommendation: Go into the health food store or department of the grocery store. Take a good look around. Now turn around and walk out.
Go take a walk in the park. Find a farmer’s market and pick up some fresh, local in-season food. Eat that for dinner. Every day, lather rinse repeat.
BOOM! Healthy! Good health does not come in a bottle or a powdered mix. It’s highly likely your body won’t absorb most of the supplements you’d find in a health food store; those places are basically money grabs for people who cannot or will not for whatever reasons, exercise regularly and eat healthfully. If you eat right and get plenty of rest, water, and exercise, you shouldn’t need anything in a health food store.
I buy Vitamin D but that is only on the orders of my doctor who showed me the blood test results demonstrating that I am low in D. Unless you have hard evidence like that, don’t spend a dime in those places.
Good grief. I just spent about 30 seconds on the “infowars” site and determined it to be a big bowl of stupid, hairy conspiracy theorism. Build up in the gut. LOL. I thought that all went out by the 1990s; people still believe this nonsense, really?
regularshow, are you mentally or physically disabled? Or, really old, or bedridden? Unable to ingest actual food? Because I can’t imagine that Ensure or other such products would be useful at all, if you’re not.
The health food section of my grocery store is mostly around the perimeter. Vegetables, meat, eggs, fruit, dairy products. Farmers markets and some specialty markets (and hunters and gardeners) are also a good source of actual food. With actual fiber, so you don’t get " layers of build up in the gut".
Spendid reasons to buy in that section of the store:
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[li]You wallet needs to lose weight.[/li][li]You can meet guillible people there who might believe all kinds of lies you tell about yourself. Maybe a date?[/li][li]You want to help the economy and believe in trickle down. You give your money to the wealthy hucksters and they will spend it down the line![/li][li]You are bored and reading the claims made is always good for a laugh.[/li][li]Reading the claims and actually thinking about why they are such crap, critically analyzing them, is great for sharpening the mind.[/li][li]You want to internally point and laugh at the idiots who actually buy this stuff. You know you may not be the smartest and it is nice to see that you are not the stupidest either.[/li][/ol]
Okay someone come up with four more and we’ve got a top ten reasons to … !
Not quite related but it amuses me greatly that the froo-froo grain section at my local grocery store sells TVP (textured vegetable protein). I’m sure there are people who use it regularly and I mean nothing against them but I can’t help but imagine loading up my cart with TVP, Red Dye #40, and carageenan. “Excuse me, where do you keep the soy lecithin?”