The United States Pharmacopeia requires just 80 tests on supplements. This is the requirement for pharmaceutical standards.
You get what you pay for. Ever heard of that? And that 's true, at least 99% of the time. My friend Mike Eaton of Consumer's Choice Marketing offers a free service to his customers. It's true. I'm one of his customers.
Anyway let's get back to supplements. The business where you purchase your supplements, do they tell you how many tests they perform on the raw ingredients that go into their products? Are you confident there are no pesticides, lead, mercury, etc in your supplements? Are you getting the results you want?
I'm proud to say I market Shaklee products. The products helped me to not only regain my health, but I feel better than ever. Shaklee shares my vision and values. I've received valuable education from doctors, nurses and nutritionists. Go here and take a look.
Remember how many tests the USP requires? Shaklee tests for over 350 contaminants, including 320 pesticides. They also conduct over 100,000 tests annually to ensure the greatest purity and potency possible.
You may be thinking "well those products have got to cost an arm and a leg". Go ahead and take a look here. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
In addition to these products, you have me. I will work with you to determine what products are right for you so you aren't spending money on products you don't need.
Contact me at marybeth@mamabearproductions.net to set up a time to talk.
Mary Beth
Creating a healthy family is like a game of follow the leader. Your kids will do what you do, take care of yourself first.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
What's Soy wrong?
No that isn't a typo. Soy hasn't gotten a bad reputation over the years and this post is to clear up any misunderstandings.
Actually soy has been long valued as a healthy vegetarian source of protein, recent research has discovered important compounds in soy called isoflavones provide potentially powerful health benefits of their own beyond the simple delivery of healthy nutrients in soy, from protein to minerals.
For 50 years, Shaklee scientists have recommended soy protein consumption as part of a healthy diet. However, today we are also well aware of the great confusion among consumers and even health professionals about the health benefits of soy, because of a few very limited studies on soy that have received much attention on the internet.
Mark Messina, PhD, is an adjunct associate professor at Loma Linda University and the Executive Director of the Soy Nutrition Institute. Dr. Messina, an acknowledged leader in soy research, has made studying the health affects of soy his focus for over 20 years and has published more than 60 scientific papers and given more than 500 presentations on soy foods to health professionals around the world.
From his comprehensive scientific white paper prepared exclusively for us, Dr. Messina produced a two-part summary update on soy. In a previous blog, was the content from part one. Here is part two.
Now in Part 2, Soy and Your Health: Dispelling the Myths, linked to this letter, Dr. Messina addresses the misleading and inaccurate rumors about soy circulating on the internet. According to Dr. Messina’s careful review, many of these studies incorrectly link soy to adverse effects. So now it’s time to learn the truth about the so called “anti-nutrients” in soy, how soy really affects the thyroid, breast health, and brain function and the real differences between unfermented and fermented soy. Dr. Messina’s detailed investigation also includes reference citations of published scientific research studies he analyzed to reach his conclusions.
Thank you Dr. Jamie McManus for providing this enlightening information.
Want to speak with a person who has used soy protein for 14 years and has side benefits vs. side affects? Contact Mary Beth at marybeth@mamabearproductions.net
Mary Beth Potrykus
Mama Bear Productions
Keeping Health in Focus
Actually soy has been long valued as a healthy vegetarian source of protein, recent research has discovered important compounds in soy called isoflavones provide potentially powerful health benefits of their own beyond the simple delivery of healthy nutrients in soy, from protein to minerals.
For 50 years, Shaklee scientists have recommended soy protein consumption as part of a healthy diet. However, today we are also well aware of the great confusion among consumers and even health professionals about the health benefits of soy, because of a few very limited studies on soy that have received much attention on the internet.
Mark Messina, PhD, is an adjunct associate professor at Loma Linda University and the Executive Director of the Soy Nutrition Institute. Dr. Messina, an acknowledged leader in soy research, has made studying the health affects of soy his focus for over 20 years and has published more than 60 scientific papers and given more than 500 presentations on soy foods to health professionals around the world.
From his comprehensive scientific white paper prepared exclusively for us, Dr. Messina produced a two-part summary update on soy. In a previous blog, was the content from part one. Here is part two.
Now in Part 2, Soy and Your Health: Dispelling the Myths, linked to this letter, Dr. Messina addresses the misleading and inaccurate rumors about soy circulating on the internet. According to Dr. Messina’s careful review, many of these studies incorrectly link soy to adverse effects. So now it’s time to learn the truth about the so called “anti-nutrients” in soy, how soy really affects the thyroid, breast health, and brain function and the real differences between unfermented and fermented soy. Dr. Messina’s detailed investigation also includes reference citations of published scientific research studies he analyzed to reach his conclusions.
Thank you Dr. Jamie McManus for providing this enlightening information.
Want to speak with a person who has used soy protein for 14 years and has side benefits vs. side affects? Contact Mary Beth at marybeth@mamabearproductions.net
Mary Beth Potrykus
Mama Bear Productions
Keeping Health in Focus
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Antioxidants and Cancer
Although the internet can be a good resource for information, there are times when it provides false information and/or inaccurate information. For example "Do antioxidants actually increase your risk of cancer?"
The source of this question and answer is a meta-analysis of 66 antioxidant clinical trials published in 2007 by Bjelakovic in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Although their data suggested that taking extra vitamins A, E and Beta Carotene, increased cancer by up to 16% the study excluded over 400 clinical trials because no deaths were reported in those trials. Only trials with a significant number of deaths were included.
So another group of scientific experts re-analyzed the data. Their meta-analysis showed that 36% of the antioxidant clinical trials had a beneficial outcome, 60% showed no effect of supplementation and only 4% had a negative outcome.
Just this past month the data were published from a very large clinical trial in Europe. In this study 23,943 adults from Germany were followed for a total of 11 years.
The participants who consumed antioxidant supplements at the beginning of the study had a 48% decrease in cancer mortality and a 42% decrease in all cause mortality compared to those who did not take any supplements.
Dr. Chaney states "like most other reputable scientists, I am not yet ready to promise you that antioxidant supplements will decrease your cancer risk. However, I think you can pretty much forget this nonsense about antioxidant supplements increasing your cancer risk."
Be selective about what you put into your body. Not sure what supplements are right for you? Email Mary Beth at marybeth@mamabearproductions.net to set up a Personal Confidential Nutrition Consultation.
I am passionate about helping people.
Mary Beth
The source of this question and answer is a meta-analysis of 66 antioxidant clinical trials published in 2007 by Bjelakovic in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Although their data suggested that taking extra vitamins A, E and Beta Carotene, increased cancer by up to 16% the study excluded over 400 clinical trials because no deaths were reported in those trials. Only trials with a significant number of deaths were included.
So another group of scientific experts re-analyzed the data. Their meta-analysis showed that 36% of the antioxidant clinical trials had a beneficial outcome, 60% showed no effect of supplementation and only 4% had a negative outcome.
Just this past month the data were published from a very large clinical trial in Europe. In this study 23,943 adults from Germany were followed for a total of 11 years.
The participants who consumed antioxidant supplements at the beginning of the study had a 48% decrease in cancer mortality and a 42% decrease in all cause mortality compared to those who did not take any supplements.
Dr. Chaney states "like most other reputable scientists, I am not yet ready to promise you that antioxidant supplements will decrease your cancer risk. However, I think you can pretty much forget this nonsense about antioxidant supplements increasing your cancer risk."
Be selective about what you put into your body. Not sure what supplements are right for you? Email Mary Beth at marybeth@mamabearproductions.net to set up a Personal Confidential Nutrition Consultation.
I am passionate about helping people.
Mary Beth
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Is your health, your choice?
We need doctors. Doctors are there to make recommendations. Ultimately it is our choice how we address a health issue. We trust they give us the right information and that is true, but there are alternative ways to prevent and address health issues. Read on to learn what our government is trying to do.
Obama Attacks Nutrition
By Alan Caruba
While watching a television commercial for some prescription medication, have you ever wondered why something it states may kill you or cause serious side effects ever was permitted to be marketed to the public?
For decades I have taken a full range of vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements every morning. I don’t get head colds or any unwanted side affects. In my seventh decade, I enjoy exceptional good health. An annual physical check up is always the same. I am fine.
Millions of Americans benefit from a daily regimen of vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements. Athletes use whey protein powders. Body builders take amino acids. Others augment food products that lack sufficient nutritional value. Their health and wellness is now threatened by the Obama administration’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Banning Health!
On the Friday before the Fourth of July weekend, the FDA published a 47-page document, the Codex Alimentarius, that would ban all nutritional and supplemental ingredients by requiring them to file documentation involving multi-million-dollar testing and the regulations would be retroactive to 1994!
This will destroy the manufacturers of these products because most are small companies that could not afford such costs. It’s not like there is a vast body of information that demonstrates any threat to health from vitamins and minerals. Quite the contrary. There is ample information on their benefits. There are libraries filled with books devoted to this.
Who would benefit from such regulation of the natural supplement industry? Big Pharma. The same pharmaceutical companies that have a long record of putting forth FDA-approved medications that later prove to be lethal are looking to use the regulatory powers of FDA to literally increase levels of illness.
In the same way Obamacare has been demonstrated to not only be unconstitutional, but also a threat to the health of millions—especially senior citizens—this callous administration now threatens to remove from the shelves of stores that sell nutritional supplements, from pharmacies, and from supermarkets and other outlets, the vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements on which millions depend for wellness.
This constitutes a criminal conspiracy and Congress, which has ceded its law-making authority to the FDA, must hear from everyone in order to stop this assault on everyone’s health.
Frank Murray, the former editor of Better Nutrition, Great Life, and Let’s Live, is the author and co-author of fifty books on health and nutrition. They include Natural Supplements for Diabetes, Health Benefits Derived from Sweet Orange, and 100 Super Supplements for a Longer Life. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
One of Murray’s books, Sunshine and Vitamin D, notes that “With the hundreds of clinical trials published on Vitamin D in recent years—I read one study with 132 references—it is obvious that the ‘sunshine vitamin’ no longer has to play second fiddle to the other vitamins.” The same can be said for vitamins A, B, C, and E. All have amply demonstrated their value. Add to them, zink, potassium, selenium, and other mineral supplements. All those prostate advertisements are about herbal supplements!
The Obama administration that has made obesity its pet project is also famous for photos of the President eating every kind of fast food. It is rank hypocrisy, but the proposed FDA ban is literally life threatening.
Write, email, and fax your Representative and Senator to ensure that Congress intervenes with the FDA in the same fashion it is struggling to protect us against an out-of-control Environmental Protection Agency. In particular, contact the members of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee.
Your life and the lives of your loved ones literally depend on stopping this attack on real nutrition.
Americans are losing the freedom they take for granted as Big Government intrudes on every personal choice they make. The Obama administration has demonstrated its total indifference to America’s senior citizens' access to affordable medical care and now all Americans' ability to access nutritional supplements.
You are being “protected” into an early grave!
Obama Attacks Nutrition
By Alan Caruba
While watching a television commercial for some prescription medication, have you ever wondered why something it states may kill you or cause serious side effects ever was permitted to be marketed to the public?
For decades I have taken a full range of vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements every morning. I don’t get head colds or any unwanted side affects. In my seventh decade, I enjoy exceptional good health. An annual physical check up is always the same. I am fine.
Millions of Americans benefit from a daily regimen of vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements. Athletes use whey protein powders. Body builders take amino acids. Others augment food products that lack sufficient nutritional value. Their health and wellness is now threatened by the Obama administration’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Banning Health!
On the Friday before the Fourth of July weekend, the FDA published a 47-page document, the Codex Alimentarius, that would ban all nutritional and supplemental ingredients by requiring them to file documentation involving multi-million-dollar testing and the regulations would be retroactive to 1994!
This will destroy the manufacturers of these products because most are small companies that could not afford such costs. It’s not like there is a vast body of information that demonstrates any threat to health from vitamins and minerals. Quite the contrary. There is ample information on their benefits. There are libraries filled with books devoted to this.
Who would benefit from such regulation of the natural supplement industry? Big Pharma. The same pharmaceutical companies that have a long record of putting forth FDA-approved medications that later prove to be lethal are looking to use the regulatory powers of FDA to literally increase levels of illness.
In the same way Obamacare has been demonstrated to not only be unconstitutional, but also a threat to the health of millions—especially senior citizens—this callous administration now threatens to remove from the shelves of stores that sell nutritional supplements, from pharmacies, and from supermarkets and other outlets, the vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements on which millions depend for wellness.
This constitutes a criminal conspiracy and Congress, which has ceded its law-making authority to the FDA, must hear from everyone in order to stop this assault on everyone’s health.
Frank Murray, the former editor of Better Nutrition, Great Life, and Let’s Live, is the author and co-author of fifty books on health and nutrition. They include Natural Supplements for Diabetes, Health Benefits Derived from Sweet Orange, and 100 Super Supplements for a Longer Life. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
One of Murray’s books, Sunshine and Vitamin D, notes that “With the hundreds of clinical trials published on Vitamin D in recent years—I read one study with 132 references—it is obvious that the ‘sunshine vitamin’ no longer has to play second fiddle to the other vitamins.” The same can be said for vitamins A, B, C, and E. All have amply demonstrated their value. Add to them, zink, potassium, selenium, and other mineral supplements. All those prostate advertisements are about herbal supplements!
The Obama administration that has made obesity its pet project is also famous for photos of the President eating every kind of fast food. It is rank hypocrisy, but the proposed FDA ban is literally life threatening.
Write, email, and fax your Representative and Senator to ensure that Congress intervenes with the FDA in the same fashion it is struggling to protect us against an out-of-control Environmental Protection Agency. In particular, contact the members of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee.
Your life and the lives of your loved ones literally depend on stopping this attack on real nutrition.
Americans are losing the freedom they take for granted as Big Government intrudes on every personal choice they make. The Obama administration has demonstrated its total indifference to America’s senior citizens' access to affordable medical care and now all Americans' ability to access nutritional supplements.
You are being “protected” into an early grave!
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Rate your vitamin
When there is a question about anything, people will go to the internet. The internet is trustworthy. Right? Well although it is a great resource of information, be cautious about what you read.
If you are looking for the best supplements (vitamins) on the internet, then question the source. There is a website, Multi Vitamin Guide. This website has a rating of vitamins. But they don't state who they are, how the rating was created, and there aren't any links to the specific companies so that you, the buyer, can see what is in each vitamin. The website says it is the result of over 6 years of scientific research and analysis. But they don't reveal who "they" are. Also, the top rated vitamins are from companies that many haven't heard of.
Be cautious of what minerals/vitamins are in a multi-vitamin. For example this website's recommendation of Vitamin A is 7500 IUs. The Daily Value recommendation is 5,000 IU. Most experts recommend that half come from beta-carotene to avoid the risk of bone fractures cause by high doses of Vitamin A.
What Mama Bear Productions provides is honesty. We provide Personal Confidential Nutrition Consultations. This way we can find out about your needs, what's going on with you, and what you are looking for. We provide the information and you decide what is right for you.
Talk to someone who is honest, reputable, and has your best interest at heart.
Mary Beth
www.mamabearproductions.net
If you are looking for the best supplements (vitamins) on the internet, then question the source. There is a website, Multi Vitamin Guide. This website has a rating of vitamins. But they don't state who they are, how the rating was created, and there aren't any links to the specific companies so that you, the buyer, can see what is in each vitamin. The website says it is the result of over 6 years of scientific research and analysis. But they don't reveal who "they" are. Also, the top rated vitamins are from companies that many haven't heard of.
Be cautious of what minerals/vitamins are in a multi-vitamin. For example this website's recommendation of Vitamin A is 7500 IUs. The Daily Value recommendation is 5,000 IU. Most experts recommend that half come from beta-carotene to avoid the risk of bone fractures cause by high doses of Vitamin A.
What Mama Bear Productions provides is honesty. We provide Personal Confidential Nutrition Consultations. This way we can find out about your needs, what's going on with you, and what you are looking for. We provide the information and you decide what is right for you.
Talk to someone who is honest, reputable, and has your best interest at heart.
Mary Beth
www.mamabearproductions.net
Monday, July 25, 2011
Does what we eat affect our kids?
Did you know that what a woman eats, during pregnancy, can affect the DNA of her baby? According to Dr. Stephen Chaney, in a study performed by Ong & Muhlhausler, female rats were maintained on either a standard rat chow or a "junk-food diet"(food containing high fat and sugar), while the rat was pregnant and then while lactating Then the rats were separated from their moms and allowed to choose what they wanted to eat.
The "junk food" babies showed a marked preference for high fat foods. Also, they showed alterations in their hormones that preconditioned them to require a higher intake of fat to experience pleasure from eating.
In a second study by Jousee et al, and Faseb, female mice were maintained on either a standard mice chow or a low protein diet, during pregnancy and lactation.
In this situation, the mice offspring had a lower body weight and less fat.
Every good nutritionist knows that pregnant and lactating women should not be on a low protein diet. With that said it is sensible for pregnant/lactating women to eat the right amount of protein, carbs and fat to be healthy and to have a healthy baby.
To prepare for conceiving a baby, a healthy diet is the responsibility of both parents, The baby will have DNA from both.
Most prenatal nutrition advice is currently based on what it takes to have a healthy baby - not on what it might take for your child to experience better health throughout their life.
For pre-natal, pregnancy, and/or lactating nutrition program contact Mary Beth at 810-813-3308.
Creating a healthy family is like a game of Follow the Leader. Our kids will do what we do, take care of yourself first.
Mary Beth
http://www.mamabearproductions.net/
The "junk food" babies showed a marked preference for high fat foods. Also, they showed alterations in their hormones that preconditioned them to require a higher intake of fat to experience pleasure from eating.
In a second study by Jousee et al, and Faseb, female mice were maintained on either a standard mice chow or a low protein diet, during pregnancy and lactation.
In this situation, the mice offspring had a lower body weight and less fat.
Every good nutritionist knows that pregnant and lactating women should not be on a low protein diet. With that said it is sensible for pregnant/lactating women to eat the right amount of protein, carbs and fat to be healthy and to have a healthy baby.
To prepare for conceiving a baby, a healthy diet is the responsibility of both parents, The baby will have DNA from both.
Most prenatal nutrition advice is currently based on what it takes to have a healthy baby - not on what it might take for your child to experience better health throughout their life.
For pre-natal, pregnancy, and/or lactating nutrition program contact Mary Beth at 810-813-3308.
Creating a healthy family is like a game of Follow the Leader. Our kids will do what we do, take care of yourself first.
Mary Beth
http://www.mamabearproductions.net/
Saturday, July 9, 2011
What, when, and why
I've been asked why I take so many "pills". The "pills" are supplements. Why do I take them? Because, and I'll be honest, I don't eat according to the food pyramid guide, I'm unable to always breathe clean air, and basically I'm not perfect. So I need to supplement my diet with a high end line of natural products.
What do I take? Well a good foundation consists of; multi-vitamin, B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, and a supplement with calcium/magnesium/vitamin D. Because I want to offset the affects of stress, I also take an immune builder. Then because I am a woman and in menopause I take a supplement that has black cohosh, dong quai, flax seed and additional ingredients which prevent hot flashes and lack of sleep. Also, I have acid reflux and I take a probiotic, enzymes and alfalfa. In the morning I take my supplements with a soy protein that is non-GMO.
When do I take my supplements? Various times of the day.
I've built up to this regiment. Yes you may be saying WOW that's a lot! Maybe. But I'll tell you that I am not the norm. Most women my age have had severe female problems, lack of energy, and severe mood swings. Not me. Oh and what I take has side benefits.
So call me weird. I'll take that as a compliment.
Want to know what is right for you? Contact me at marybeth@mamabearproductions.net and we can set up a day and time to either meet in person or talk on the phone.
We who have no time for our health today, may have no time for our health tomorrow.
Many blessings,
Mary Beth
What do I take? Well a good foundation consists of; multi-vitamin, B complex, vitamin C, vitamin E, and a supplement with calcium/magnesium/vitamin D. Because I want to offset the affects of stress, I also take an immune builder. Then because I am a woman and in menopause I take a supplement that has black cohosh, dong quai, flax seed and additional ingredients which prevent hot flashes and lack of sleep. Also, I have acid reflux and I take a probiotic, enzymes and alfalfa. In the morning I take my supplements with a soy protein that is non-GMO.
When do I take my supplements? Various times of the day.
I've built up to this regiment. Yes you may be saying WOW that's a lot! Maybe. But I'll tell you that I am not the norm. Most women my age have had severe female problems, lack of energy, and severe mood swings. Not me. Oh and what I take has side benefits.
So call me weird. I'll take that as a compliment.
Want to know what is right for you? Contact me at marybeth@mamabearproductions.net and we can set up a day and time to either meet in person or talk on the phone.
We who have no time for our health today, may have no time for our health tomorrow.
Many blessings,
Mary Beth
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