Tips for Choosing the Right Food Supplements
There are lots of advertisement and marketing gimmicks about Food supplements out there. You don't need to take everything in face value. If you are able to get nutrition from the food, that's good for you. Safe money !
However, nobody is going to have perfect diet all the time.
There's time that we are stress out because of works, family or financial problem, we just don't have any mood to eat healthy. We binge on junk food, sweet food etc.
Or time when we are travelling overseas and lack of healthy food choices, that's where Food Supplements come handy.
What are Food Supplements available in the market ?
- Multivitamins (considered as insurance, take one daily or when our diet is inadequate)
- Meal replacements (in google trend the most research word is weight loss, this is suitable for those who wants to cut calories in short period or those who cannot eat regular food because of certain illness, of course eating whole food is much more better even for weight loss)
- Sport nutrition - creatine, protein, amino acids (this is usually taken for those who wants to build up muscles strength by exercise and enhanced it with this supplements)
- Calcium (as we know that ladies are prone with calcium deficiency, it's best to supplement our bone with calcium)
- Vitamin C (it's useful to boost our immune system especially when we are under weather)
- Probiotics ( The good bacteria in our gut influence our immune system and overall health, it's useful to fight the bad bacteria when our immune system is weak or after taking antibiotics)
- Fish Oil (it's delivering essential good fats which our body cannot make on its own, unless you eat salmon or mackarel twice or three times a week, you need this fish oil)
- Vitamin D (People in equator may say that they have already enough vitamin D from the sun, however the ozone and air have changed overtime, most people are avoiding the unbearable heat or cover it with sunscreen and make it less effective for Vitamin D)
How to choose the right Food Supplement ?
1. Find out What Your Body Really Need
Our nutritional needs depend on our age, activity, the eating habits, existing medical conditions.
For myself, I have done comprehensive body composition measurement and this is the result.
I'm an active person, love gyms, maintain my healthy eating habit and even goes all the way for clean eating diet.
My result is overall good, only few that are in border line.
However, I'm still lack of something which is calcium and fish oil.
I don't really like fish, that's why I take fish oil and calcium supplements to fill in the gaps.
2. Shop Smart
After we know what you need, it's time for us to choose which one is the good food supplements.
With lots of choices in the store and marketing gimmicks out there, we need to do our homework first.
These are 5 checklist that we can consider :
a. What's Behind the Label
Our nutritional needs depend on our age, activity, the eating habits, existing medical conditions.
For myself, I have done comprehensive body composition measurement and this is the result.
I'm an active person, love gyms, maintain my healthy eating habit and even goes all the way for clean eating diet.
My result is overall good, only few that are in border line.
However, I'm still lack of something which is calcium and fish oil.
I don't really like fish, that's why I take fish oil and calcium supplements to fill in the gaps.
2. Shop Smart
After we know what you need, it's time for us to choose which one is the good food supplements.
With lots of choices in the store and marketing gimmicks out there, we need to do our homework first.
These are 5 checklist that we can consider :
a. What's Behind the Label
If there's not so much information in the food label, you may just leave it.
b. Traceability
We need to know where is the source of this supplements. Are they picked in organic farms ? Or just any farm ? Which country is the farm ? Worse, if it's unknown.
We can search this information from the internet or asking the manufacturer directly.
Those who are honest and pure should have these information available transparency.
c. Research Documentation
Again, some manufacturer 's goals are to please the shareholders without really care about the customers' benefit. They only run few tests, package them and sell it to the store to get faster return of investments.
Those who are true and sincere, they should have proper research documentations and endorsement or certificate from third party organization and these information should be available to customers.
d. Having doubt, talking to the sales representative
When we buy online, we are missing out from seasoned professionals, it's best to talk with the sales representative with those check list questions.
e. Consult with your doctor
Last but not least, especially if you have pre-existing medical condition, talking to your doctor or health practitioner. They may be able to advise you better.
b. Traceability
We can search this information from the internet or asking the manufacturer directly.
Those who are honest and pure should have these information available transparency.
c. Research Documentation
Again, some manufacturer 's goals are to please the shareholders without really care about the customers' benefit. They only run few tests, package them and sell it to the store to get faster return of investments.
Those who are true and sincere, they should have proper research documentations and endorsement or certificate from third party organization and these information should be available to customers.
d. Having doubt, talking to the sales representative
e. Consult with your doctor
Last but not least, especially if you have pre-existing medical condition, talking to your doctor or health practitioner. They may be able to advise you better.
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