February is Heart Health Month. Did you take your vitamins today?
1.Your Body Can’t Produce Vitamins and Minerals
Vitamins and minerals are nutrients that are required for life that are not usually created by the body. You need them to live, and you have to get them from your diet. The most common source is fruits and vegetables, but according to a 2009 report from the Centers for Disease Control, only 14% of U.S. adults and 9.5% of U.S. teens are eating the recommended minimum of two daily servings of fruit and at least three daily servings of vegetables.1 This has prompted doctors to recommend that all adults take a multivitamin daily.2
2. Timing Is Everything
As humans, we are designed to eat several times a day. So it only makes sense that we need to supplement almost as often. Supplementing the diet with the Vitality Pack more than once a day provides the ideal amounts of nutrition throughout the day. This is especially true for vitamins, because the body cannot store most vitamins. They are only of benefit for a limited time after you take them, so taking them in the morning and at night helps ensure your body has a constant supply to maintain health and proper bodily functions.
While the body can store minerals for later use, they provide the most benefit when the body has built up an adequate supply. Taking the Vitality Pack in the morning and at night helps ensure your body has the appropriate amount to perform its best.
3. Skipping Today Can Hurt Tomorrow
Most vitamins and minerals provide more than one benefit to the body. Some of them are for critical functions such as keeping your heart beating, while others are for maintaining a strong immune system and helping the body rejuvenate itself. Your body has an incredible capacity to prioritize these benefits and allocate them much like doctors prioritize patients in an emergency room.
In an ER, the most life-threatening situations are treated first. The less critical situations are only addressed once the critical cases have been stabilized.
In your body, nutrients are utilized first to maintain your critical life functions, and then—and only if there is enough—it will use them for rejuvenation, repair and other more long-term benefits. As a result, you probably won’t feel a lot of difference if you skip a day or two, or if your body isn’t receiving the recommended amount of vitamins. But over time, the deficiencies can add up. Many illnesses and diseases have a direct link to nutrient deficiencies.
1. “ State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables, 2009,” Centers for Disease Control, Sept. 29, 2009.
2. JAMA vol. 287, no. 23, 2002, p. 3127–3129.
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I love, love, love the Vitality Pack. I have been taking them for over 3 yrs now and I have only had 2 mild colds in those 3 years. I now have my whole family taking them! Just one of the Melaleuca products that I could not live without.
Vegetables: eat a variety of them! Eat fats with your veggees to absorb their vitamins/minerals. Want cheap organic? Go to the farmer’s markets and buy from farmers who sport the CCOF or USDA organic labels. Some farmers can’t afford the rigamarole or paperwork (it’s a lot). Talk to them about their practices.
I started with the vitality 4 in July 2007, and I have to say at the time I did not take supplements on a regular basis, I had tried them and never saw any significant difference. But I thought I would take the 90-day challenge and just see. Well boy was I surprised at the results and the fact that after just 30 days I no longer got those morning shakes or afternoon blaghs that go along with low blood sugar, I was not a diabetic but had those symptoms. I now never have those symptoms at all. Plus I have only had one time in the past 4 years that I had to see a Dr. for a cold or fever, I would have to say that Melaleuca’s Vitality 4 more then passed the 90 day Challenge, I now take the Vitality 6 I have become their biggest fan. Along with many others especially the Unforgettables.
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LOVE the vitality pack, it gives me more energy and im the only one who doesnt get sick in the house haha, because im the only one taking them lol, i asked my hubby if he wants some for men, but he said no, and guess what, HES SICK! lol been giving my 2 oldest daughters the vitamins and they havnet been sick either, the baby is too young for the vitamins and she was the first one sick. but every product from Melaleuca works better than anything ive ever tried before, LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!
I echo those who testify to the fact that they don’t get sick while on the Vitality Pack! Me neither!!!!
Flus and viruses hit all around, and they evade me, an estimated 9 times out of 10! I RARELY get sick! I also drink the daily reccommended amount of water…vitamins and water combined – great way to keep your immune system well equipped to fight. Wouldn’t EVER want to do without Melaleuca’s products!
I agree with all the above comments as to how wonderful Melaleuca’s vitamins and other products are. I was watching Dr. Oz a few weeks ago & he had a doctor on his show that taught everyone how to stop feeling fatigued daily. She said to take a daily multi-mineral. That comment got me curious. Before Melaleuca I use to take other multivitanins that contained minerals, but never felt a difference in my energy level, etc. Then it really clicked for me! The reason for the noticeable difference in energy level is due to the Oligo technology that ONLY Melaleuca offers. I am ever so grateful to Melaleuca for so many reasons.