Take Your Vitamins!
Do you take a daily supplement? Keep this in mind: there’s a reason for Flintstones’ chewables. Vitamins are an essential health-tool.
For six years, Clinician’s Choice was only available through a doctor’s office, but starting this month, they’re now available on-line. Clinician’s Choice, the preferred vitamin of Kelly Hu, Kylie Bax and “Scrubs” star Zach Braff, offers vitamins with over-the-counter (OTC) pharmaceutical standards. Products dissolve within 30 minutes, so your body can easily absorb them. Less than 10% of competitors meet this standards. Vitamins need to be absorbed to be effective. Two-year shelf live clearly marked on every bottle.
Clinician’s Choice offers a large choice of issue-specific vitamins, with a section on their website for women, one for men, one on weight management and a “general” section.
Five products are specifically for women and “best-sellers”
1. Women’s AM and PM
2. Omega 3 Fatty Acids
3. Osteo-Guard
4. Super Anti-Oxidants PLUS
From their scienceforhealth.com website:
· 150 million Americans take a daily nutritional supplement. · 80% of adults in the · In 1997, $27 billion was spent on 636 million visits to complementary and alternative providers of care. · Soy, rich in phytoestrogen compounds and already said to reduce risk for heart disease and osteoporosis, may help protect against the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, especially in post-menopausal women, according to a NIH study presented at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in · A diet rich in soy protein has some of the positive effects of estrogen replacement therapy but without the risky side effects, according to early research from Children's · Research found that glucosamine can dull the pain of osteoarthritis - the painful stiffening of the joints that afflicts 21 million, mostly older, Americans - according to a recent Lancet report. · Approximately 70% of women of reproductive age may not understand the importance of adequate dietary folate in preventing neural tube defects (NTDs) in offspring, according to a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Michigan Department of Community Health. · The FDA received 470 reports of bad reactions to dietary supplements; the nation�s poison control clinics actually treated 13,000. · Ephedra, an herbal stimulant used by millions of Americans for bodybuilding and weight loss, can cause heart attacks, stroke, seizures and death in otherwise healthy young people, researchers say.
· Three hundred thousand people die each year due to obesity-related causes, making it the second-leading cause of death after smoking. Being overweight or obese increases the risk of hypertension, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers. · Americans spend more than $33 billion a year on weight-loss products and services. However, that’s less than half of the $70 billion estimated annual health-related costs of treating obesity. · The latest NHANES report on adults found that the number of overweight adults jumped from 55 percent in the 1988-1994 survey to 61 percent in 1999. · There has been a 58% increase in obesity amongst adults between the ages of 20-40 since 1990. · A national survey showed that 13 percent of children ages 6 to 11 were overweight in 1999, up from 11 percent in the previous survey, conducted from 1988 to 1994. The number of overweight 12 to 19-year-olds increased from 11 percent to 14 percent. · By conservative estimates, 25% of prescription weight loss drugs are used by individuals who do not need them, investigators from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in · 12 million Americans annually take ephedra/ma huang for weight loss and muscle building - this is despite numerous cases of hypertension, heart attack, stroke, seizures and 70 known deaths associated with ephedra. · Excess body weight increases the risk of colon, breast and other cancers, according to a report in the February 1st issue of the International Journal of Cancer. · Studies show that both calcium and vitamin A have a major impact on body weight and body fat. They recommend that young women who want to lose weight consume about 1,950 calories a day, 5,000 international units (IU) of vitamin A, and 1,000 mg of calcium. |
The site also offers a “Ask the Nutrionist” and “Ask Dr. John” section.
E-mail:
inquire@clinicians-choice.com
Phone:
1-800-640-6642
24 hours a day seven days a week
Fax:
(703) 668-0062
Mail:
American Health Sciences, Inc.
Suite G
(703) 668-0069
Nutritionist:
1-866-925-9254 ext. 302
nutritionist@clinicians-choice.com
