Do you use Artificial Sweeteners? Are they Healthy Replacements for Sugar?

A lot of people use artificial sweeteners because they have heard that sugar is bad for them but love things sweet.   Are they doing the right thing?

Artificial sweeteners have their own problems.   Here is a list of them with links to articles on their relationship to your health

Sugar Substitutes

Is there anything you can take to sweeten up you coffee or use in your baking.   It appears that Stevia is the best option.  Stevia is a herb that used in very small amounts make a great sweetener.  It comes in packets, or drops and works well.

Here is the definition:

Stevia: Made from the leaves of a Paraguayan herb, and usually found in powder form, it is 300 times sweeter than sugar. A little goes a very long way (obviously). It’s non-caloric, which is generally considered a plus.

Cholesterol – Do You Understand It?

I realized recently that I didn’t really understand what the HDL or the LDL, the good and bad cholesterol, was or what it all meant.  I’ve noticed the large amount of people, who are very concerned with their cholesterol levels and are taking Statin Drugs.  There are far too many side effects that are connected to these drugs for me to feel good about it. .

Finding a good product that I trusted and would be willing to recommend led me to have to investigate the ingredients in the various cholesterol lowering supplements available on the market.   Did that open my eyes.

So, the article on McVitamins was re-written so that you can better understand what it all means.   When you better understand anything, you are better able to control and fix the problem.

After understanding HDL, it occurred to me that we all might benefit from taking something that increased the good cholesterol, instead of just trying to block the “bad” cholesterol which the body uses to be healthy.   After all,no matter how hard I try, I sometimes wind up eating incorrectly when on the run or on vacation.

My advice, read this article. Cholesterol

 

Trace Minerals, why they are important?

I’ve been doing study on weight loss and the body’s ability to restore and repair itself. Did you know what really creates tooth decay the de-mineralization of the teeth.   This was from a study in 1922.

Trace minerals comes up again and again as the soil is so depleted and the body needs  them.  So here is an article on Trace Minerals and a video by Dr. Eric Berg on Trace Minerals   Worth the time to find out what your body needs.

Trace Minerals

Companies with Non-GMO Products

We do have a list of companies that contributed to combating the movement in California to get GMO Products Labeled.   Here is that page  GMO Companies

We’ve been working to make a list of companies that are part of the Non-GMO movement. We put them in an alphabetical list so that you can print it off and have it available when you shop.  Non-GMO Companies

We’ve done our best to compile this list.  If anyone has contrary information about these companies or know of other companies that should be on the list, please email McVitamins at Email

What is the cause of your physical problem?

The words “genetic” or “idopathic”, an unknown cause, is often used by medical doctor when they are trying and failing

to locate the reason a person is sick.  I get the idea that it is just something that happens and we are all to live in fear and hope it doesn’t happen to us.  The best I hear is that something is linked to the “disease” being talked about, nothing concrete, just perhaps something might have something to do with it.

Read about finding the Cause of Your Physical Problem?

Foot Neuropathy

Very often people complain first about their feet when they have neuropathy, nerve damage.   The nerve to the feet is long and runs down the entire leg which looks like an awful lot of area that can be damaged.

There are many causes of this.

Here is an article on Foot Neuropathy

Hormone Replacement Therapy – HRT

Here’s a subject that can round and round.  The symptoms are distracting to say the least. The imbalance of hormones supposedly makes you susceptible to heart disease, dementia, etc. etc. The drugs and “bio-identical” hormones have side effects.

You feel terrible, what do you do?

Here is an article on this with information and a really natural solution.  Once you know the reason for the problem, you can solve the problem.

HRT

Male Hormone Replacement

Recently, there has been a big push on replacing testosterone to help men regain their youth.

Is it t good idea?

There has already been talk about the negative side of taking these supplements.   So, here is an article which not only talks about that, but about what natural things you can do to improve this valuable hormone.

Low T – Testosterone

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