Health and News Reports

In addition to over 25 years experience, I have over 20 years experience studying and being involved with vitamins and supplements.  During this time, I have talked with and gotten feedback from over 10,000 customers at various places where I have worked.  So when I hear news stories on radio and TV that present one side of a story, it bothers me, and it should bother you, too, as it is your health that may be affected.

For example, say there are 8,000 studies done on a particular vitamin or supplement, and 7,900 showed positive results and benefits, and 100 were negative - well, those 100 are what the news might report.  And the result would be to deter you from something that might be extremely beneficial to you.  Also, what you are not told is that the negative studies were sponsored by a company with competing interests, that they used synthetic instead of natural ingredients, nor will they tell you that any positive results were discarded.  Or perhaps, like the study that was mentioned on TV a few days ago, a supplement is studied in isolation, but really needed to be taken with supporting nutrients to keep those nutrients in balance, allowing the nutrient to be better absorbed, as nature intended.   The news report was about calcium supplementation.  If you saw that report (or not), here is a link you should definitely read:
http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Flawed-Analysis-Misleads-Public-About-Calcium-Heart-Attack-Risk.htm

In short, studies can have many flaws in order to show a particular outcome, and which no one would ever follow in real life.

So, what can you do?  Research online, and there are many sites with good information.  Below are some of the best of them:
http://www.anh-usa.org/
http://orthomolecular.org/nutrients/fats.shtml
http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/
http://www.lef.org/

I hope you will find this information helpful.  To enjoy life to the maximum, you really need good health.  With proper diet (what to eat as well as what to avoid), exercise, positivity, and the right supplements, most people will enjoy good health, and thus enjoy everything else a bit more.  And to tie this back to photography, your photo session will look better, too, because you will.