Vitamins, Nutrition, Supplements and Wellness

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Are Your Vitamins Really Working?

Vitamins, wellness products, nutritional supplements are a multi-million dollar business. The store shelves are stocked with a variety of brands and get well-get healthy claims.

However, do you know if your brand of vitamins or supplements are doing what they claim they can do?

Shaklee Guarantee 

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

If for any reason a Shaklee Product is not satisfactory, return it to your Shaklee Independent Distributor or Shaklee Corporation for exchange or full refund.

If our products are not the best they can be - and the best you can buy - what else matters?

So if you don't experience the desired results from a Shaklee nutritional, personal care, or household product, you may return the unused portion for a 100% refund. In addition to a money-back guarantee, we offer:
100% guarantee that the ingredients listed on the label are in the product

100% guarantee of quality-controlled product formulations that ensure product safety, purity, reliability, and product performance

100% guarantee that we use the finest quality ingredients available

REVOLUTIONARY BREAKTHROUGH 

Cellular Anti-Aging

Shaklee, the number one natural nutrition company in the U.S., is on the forefront of this emerging scientific research, and our scientists have designed a way to create a unique polyphenol blend with ingredients shown in laboratory studies to fight cellular aging. As a result, Shaklee has developed the world's best anti-aging supplement.

Watch the video Reduce Celluar Aging

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Vitamins - Just the Facts Please! 

We all want to look good, feel good and feel energized. We search the stores looking for the miracle vitamin or supplement to give us good health and well-being. That being said, nutritional supplements, wellness products and vitamins is a multi-billion dollar business.

We read the claims written on the bottles and take them to be the truth. We want the claims of "revitalization", "promotes good health", "builds strong bones" etc., to be true, even though most of the time there is no scientific data supporting the claims.

When shopping for your next wellness product, such as vitamins, or nutritional supplements, consider the following guidelines:

1: What kind of information is available on the ingredient specifications, safety and quality testing?

2: Are the health and nutritional claims on the label (if any) based on anecdotal information or a scientific data?

3: Are the products backed by published clinical research studies? If so, is the data easily accessible for review? Is the research study published and if so is the study peered reviewed?

4: Does the company invest in and operate their own research and development center and a food and nutritional supplement manufacturing plant? Shaklee does!

5: Are there clinical studies on bioavailability (which means - does the nutrients in the product get absorbed into the bloodstream and how much of it is absorbed)? Is there published clinical research to prove the bioavailability of the product?

For instance a simple test of Vitamin E 200IU was tested for delivery into the bloodstream. The results were as follows:
Brand 1 .015 absorbed
Brand 2 15.0 absorbed
Brand 3 10.0 absorbed
Brand 4 67.0 absorbed
Brand 5 200 absorbed (This was the Shaklee brand)

A vitamin is not just a vitamin, cheapest is just that, and quality determines results.

To find out your Vitality Score visit Vitality.com

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Your Children Need Vitamins Too! 

TOOTH-FRIENDLY MULTIVITAMIN AND MULTIMINERAL FOR CHILDREN

Every stage of a child's development has its own critical nutrition requirements. Did you know?

75% of brain capacity develops between birth and age three. By age five, brain development is 90% complete.

Starting at age two, children should eat moderately low-fat food to avoid health problems later.

Between ages eleven and sixteen, children often experience a major growth spurt.

Recent reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) show that our children's
diets lack the nutrients they need. By skipping meals and consuming lots of fast food, soft drinks, and sweet snacks, American children have developed diets that fall short in important nutrients. In fact, the USDA reported that only 1% of youths aged 2 to 19 met all of the dietary recommendations outlined in its Food Guide Pyramid.1 Since inadequate nutrition during childhood and adolescence can have immediate and long-term health
consequences, supplementation with a complete multivitamin and multimineral formula is essential to ensuring that your children are receiving the vitamins and minerals they need.

For more information about children's vitamins visit Childrens Health Challenge

Take Control of Your Health 

Before it takes control of you-and your finances

Elevated insulin and blood sugar levels have been linked to a number of serious health issues, such as vision and circulatory problems and impaired kidney function. Fortunately, there are simple preventative measures that you can take now to help retain normal blood sugar levels and stay healthy - and being healthy can mean fewer costly medical expenses. As part of the Shaklee commitment toward a better, healthier tomorrow, we'll help you every step of the way with useful tips and product suggestions.

Five tips to retaining a normal blood sugar level

1) Achieve a healthy weight
In a properly functioning body, insulin, a hormone made by your pancreas, helps transport glucose into the cells of the body so it can be use for energy. However, in overweight individuals, cells of the body can become resistant to insulin's action. One of the best ways to retain normal blood sugar levels is to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Try the Cinch Inch Loss Plan, an effective and clinically tested program powered by leucine, an amino acid that helps preserve your muscle while you lose body fat.

2) Eat foods with a low glycemic index
When you're constantly on the run, it's easy to forget about giving your body the proper nutrition it needs. You may find yourself reaching for a bag of cookies, which most likely have a high glycemic index (GI), meaning the carbohydrates in those cookies are quickly broken down to glucose and released into the bloodstream. This quick release can then lead to a sharp rise in blood sugar, followed by a sharp drop in blood sugar leaving you with feelings of low energy. Help retain normal blood sugar levels by eating foods that have a low GI. Cinch Shakes and Meal-in-a-Bars are a great alternative because they taste great, fill you up and give your body the sustained energy it needs. For more information about the Cinch® Inch Loss Plan, click here.

3) Enhance your health
So, you're at a healthy weight and your blood sugar is where you want it to be. What else? How about the health of your heart, brain, digestive system, and other body parts? Keep the healthy momentum going and remember to take your vitamins and minerals on a daily basis. ShakleeVitalizer is the perfect supplement for daily nutritional support. Its 80 bio-optimized, clinically proven nutrients that enhance immunity, protect your DNA, and help manage your stress. It contains more than 20 antioxidant compounds and essential vitamins and minerals you need for a comprehensive approach to health, wellness, and vitality.

4) Additional botanical support
Certain minerals and botanicals have been scientifically shown to help retain normal blood sugar levels. These include banana leaf extract, which helps stimulate glucose uptake, and chromium, a mineral essential to insulin function. Shaklee Glucose Regulation Complex® contains these plus other normal blood sugar supporting ingredients including magnesium, vanadium, zinc, taurine, and alpha lipoic acid. For more information about Shaklee Glucose Regulation Complex click here.

5) Stay active
Last, but not least, stay active. Try to get in 30 minutes of regular physical activity, such as brisk walking, bicycling or swimming most days of the week. If your busy schedule won't allow that, break your activity into sessions-10 minutes in the morning, 10 in the afternoon, and a short 10 minute walk in the evening. Being more active will not only make you feel good, it will enhance your body's ability to use insulin and help you maintain a healthy weight.

If you would like to read the health sciences bulletins and published research on Shaklee products visit Health Sciences Also, Shaklee uses no animal testing! Can you nutrition, wellness and supplement products say that?

Getting Healthy 2009 

Takin care of your health and skin

Re-Vitalize
The best of Shaklee science in 80
bio-optimized nutrients clinically proven to create a foundation
for a longer, healthier life.

100% Shaklee Guarantee
Vitalizer is based on an unprecedented 12 Shaklee
clinical studies that show the difference. We believe that the quality we've put into it is the reason you can actually feel the quality of life you get out. That's why it's 100% guaranteed.
Cinch Weight Loss
A health and nutrition leader since 1956, Shaklee continues to champion solid, scientifically backed product choices rather than "risky" trends. Start your weight loss with the Cinch Plan!
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Household Cleaning products that are safe forr your family, safe for the envrionment and smart for your Wallet

The Get Clean Starter Kit replaces 830 bottles or boxes of conventional ready-to-use cleaning products you use in your house, kitchen and laundry - over $3400 of equivalent cleaning power.
Complete Skin Care Therapy Part 2
All natural skin care products to bring out the best in you. No animal testing in these products!
Homemade Skin Care Recipes
Ever thought about making your own skin care products that you can customize to you skin type.

Artificial Foods versus Real Foods 

However the labels often claim they are.

The picture to the right shows two rats from the same litter 6 weeks after birth. The one on the left was raised on nothing but eggs from birth
while the one on the right was raised on nothing but Eggbeaters.

Do they look like they were raised on nutritionally equivalent foods?

Eggbeaters were advertised as having the taste and nutrition of farm fresh eggs. Although, the comparison chart on the box showed there were more vitamins and minerals in the Eggbeaters than in real eggs, what conclusion do you draw-

Do synthetic vitamins really build health?

Not so sure about your brand, then try this-Send a letter to the company producing your current vitamin or supplement as follows: "Please send me whatever scientific research data on your product. I would like to receive independent scientific studies or articles that have been published in peer reviewed journals, supporting your claims on the product. It is important to me to know that I am using a product that is safe and effective. Thank you very much." The response, if any, should be on that particular product(s) you are inquiring about, not just research on the nutrient in general.

For more information about nutritional supplements visit Vitamins and Nutrients

Vitamins 

The Real Vitamin and Mineral Book, 4th edition: The Definitive Guide to Designing Your Personal Supplement Program

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Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting

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What You Must Know About Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, & More: Choosing the Nutrients That Are Right for You

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Undisolved Vitamins 

Are your vitamins doing what they claim?

From the textbook "Essentials of Skeletal Radiology, Volume 2" by Yochum and Rowe
"This patient has multiple undissolved pills within the bowel."

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