Nutrition
Food contains vital nutrients that are essential for good health: carbohydrates, lipids (fats and oils), proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water.
Nutrients have three general functions in the body
- provide materials for building and maintaining the body
- act as regulators for key metabolic reactions
- participate in metabolic reactions that provide the energy necessary to sustain life.
When nutrient intake fails to meet body needs, undernutrition develops. Poor body functioning and physical signs and symptoms of a nutrient deficiency eventually develop.
Multivitamins
Daily supplementation with a multivitamin has scientifically proven to improve health and reduce the risk of chronic diseases. Inadequate vitamin and or mineral intake can be associated with fatigue, poor immune resistance, difficulty coping with stress and increased incidence of disease. The issue of vitamin and mineral deficiencies is further compounded by the fact that our busy, stressful lifestyle tends to increase requirements for many of these nutrients. Supplementing with vitamins and minerals therefore, makes sense.
Magnesium/Calcium
Many different vitamins and minerals are involved in muscle function, so it is very important to eat a good diet, chosen from a wide variety of foods. The minerals magnesium and calcium are particularly important for muscle function as they work directly on the muscle cells to relax any tense or sore muscles. Without these nutrients muscular movement would be impossible. If there is an inadequate amount of these minerals the process of muscle relaxation is impaired and they become tight and knotted.
Fishoils
You may have heard how important things like extra fibre and lowering cholesterol are to the health of your heart, but you may not have heard that fish oil (Omega 3/fatty acids) supplements can also play an important role as well. These oils can help to regulate the levels of cholesterol in the body. It is best to get Omega 3 fish oils from fish naturally, however, fish oil supplements are there to help “make up” for the lost amount of seafood we don't consume.
