Labels on Food and Vitamins

Just a short post today about labels - always read the ingredients on the back of them - the front of the label is often misleading.

For example, there is a product that on the front says Bone Active Cal-Mag Chelated, which might sound good, but looking at the back of the label, there is Oyster Shell Calcium and Calcium Carbonate listed first, then the Chelated Calcium Gluconate.  The ingredients in lists have to be listed from high to low, with no way to know how much of each.  It could be 90% Oyster Shell, 9% carbonate, and 1% of the Gluconate.  The first two ingredients are very cheap and who knows how effective they are.  I've read lots of negative things about oyster shell and some about carbonate.  On the other hand, I've read and heard good things about calcium hydroxyapatite, citrate, and gluconate.  Do your research.

Also, what won't the label tell you?  Well, for a calcium supplement, it won't tell you that you also need to take it with magnesium, and for bones, to take it with Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K (preferably K1 and K2-MK7).

For food, just make sure there are no chemicals, artificial anything, added colors, etc.  Unfortunately, the only way to be sure you're not getting GMOs in some foods is to buy organic.  Common foods containing GMOs are if they have beet sugar, corn ________ (corn anything) and soy ________.

If you are uncertain about what an ingredient is, you can always Google it, and also search with and without the word Mercola in the Google search.

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