Health Food Savings

Health food is now affordable to us all.

According to media reports available you can  now save up to 25% on over 6000 different health products. Only ‘catch’ however is this is only available at Pick n Pay stores -  as from Aprill 2009 you can even get your savings when you purchase health foods online.

Foods included are vegetables, fruits, carbohydrate-rich foods, dairy and dairy alternatives, protein-rich foods, lentils and legumes and good fats such as oils, spreads, nuts and seeds. Discovery Vitality Members qualify for cash back of up to 25% when they complete an online Personal Health Review.

But I guess it is a good start to ensure that we all focus on more healthy food choices. Must admit I would have liked this even more if I could shop at a supermarket of my choice and still qualify for this savings options.

What about supplementation? With all the scientific reports available to date that our food is depleted from the vital nutrients our body’s need supplementation has been recommended, even by medical doctors. Imagine if I can get a 25% saving everytime I purchase my MultiVitamin – the one of my choice that is!

Read more about these savings here:

http://www.health-e.org.za/news/article.php?uid=20032233

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To see a catalogue of foods that you can save on go here:

https://www.discovery.co.za/index_login.jhtml?p_brand_css=/StyleSheets/screen_vitality.css&p_content=/vitality/healthy_food/healthy_food.html

Supplements – The Yes No Argument!

So you go ’surfing the Net’ looking for information on how to become more healthy. Quite an exercise – try searching on the word ‘Health’ and you will find 1,380,000,000 websites. I’m not joking, try it!

Point is everybody has a viewpoint and it can be rather confusing as everybody seems so convincing. The most interesting of them all to me is that some say you must ’supplement’ (mostly those that sell the stuff like me) and others say you shouldn’t (mostly those that sells diet plans).

The question is: Should we supplement or not?

Here is my argument.

Let’s say I tell you not to supplement, it is not necessary as you should only focus on what you eat! Now what if all the reports that our foods are depleted from the essential nutrients our bodies need are in fact true? Then your health will suffer greatly and you can develop all sorts of serious diseases over time.

Let’s say I tell you to supplement with a quality product (not synthetic), as our food might be depleted from the vital nutrients our bodies need. Now what if I am wrong and you in fact do not need to supplement? Then I caused you to spend a lot of money overtime only to enrich your urine!

So what advice is less damaging, more responsible and more focussed on the wellbeing of your overall health? Advocating against all logic and all scientific reports that supplementation is not necessary. Or advocating the addition of good quality Supplementation to a healthy diet?

I say let’s be sensible and look after our bodies the best way we can.

Eat well, Exercise Regularly, Drink enough water, Do Supplement and then Be Well!