Showing posts with label Natural Ingredients. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural Ingredients. Show all posts

With the lovely summer weather finally here, you’ll notice that you’re drinking a lot more. While there’s never a more important time to get your eight daily glasses of water, drinking the same thing eight times a day can get a bit dull, can’t it? However, before you turn to water enhancers for extra flavour and variety, you need to be aware of how water enhancers affect your wellness.


 


The water enhancer industry is worth $200 million, but there’s only one product that lets you keep water’s natural purity: Vitamin Squeeze™. Made from natural ingredients and containing no preservatives, Ecosentials’ Vitamin Squeeze™ can give you the variety and great taste you’re looking for, without compromising on the health-boosting effects of water. According to Bill McKay, Founder and CEO of Ecosentials LLC, ‘You pick a water enhancer and give yourself a plus for being healthy. Not so fast. Most water enhancers are, in fact, packed with chemical sweeteners and preservatives, much like the soda you may be trying to cut down on.’


 


In a water enhancer market dominated by conglomerates such as Kraft and Coca-Cola, Vitamin Squeeze™ is the only preservative-free option. Aside from this, the product is made using natural flavours, sweetened naturally with zero-calorie stevia and provides a potent, fresh portion of vitamins with every dose. McKay explains, ‘“We go through a lot of trouble and expense to make sure our drinking water is the purest it can be, so why dump a load of chemicals into it?’


 


In most available water enhancers, you will commonly find ingredients such as sweeteners –including acesulfame potassium – and preservatives like potassium sorbate and artificial dyes. If you take a gander at the product’s label, you’re likely to discover that your average water enhancer ‘contains less than 2% of natural flavour.’ Vitamin Squeeze™, on the other hand, gets its colour from fruit and vegetable powders and uses natural flavours and stevia. Furthermore, this product is the only enhancer to emphasise your need to replenish vitamins B and C. While you may know how important these nutrients are to your wellbeing, you may not realise that you need to replenish them regularly throughout the day.

You may want to lose weight, but diet pills seem like a scary step, don’t they? Some pills contain high levels of caffeine, which can affect your wellbeing with some pretty heavy side effects. However, while this type of diet pill is not ideal, most of them will only contain a certain amount of caffeine which – as you will know from your morning cuppa – is not necessarily a bad thing on its own. Caffeine only becomes a wellness problem when you consume more that your body can effectively process. So, with that out-of-the-way, let’s take a further look at diet pills.


 


When it comes to diet pills, it’s not a case of “seen one, seen ‘em all”. Some diet pills are worse than others and should be avoided like the plague, as they contain artificial ingredients that your body cannot process. Some diet pills, on the other hand, are filled and created using only natural ingredients that have been shown to help the body in certain processes. If you’re looking to lose weight, it is natural pills like these that you should plump for – although you may have to read a few labels first in order to determine which one is right for you.


 


If you do find yourself reading the labels of the entire supplement aisle, make sure you pick up on a few savvy points; do you have any allergies to any of these items? Will any of these items interact negatively with other medications you are taking? You should always talk to your doctor before you start taking any new supplement, but this becomes especially important if you don’t know how diet pills will interact with your current conditions/medications. You are an individual, with unique needs, and as such you need to equip yourself with information to ensure that you make the right choice for you.


 


Speaking of information, it’s not just how the pills will affect your medications that you need to read up on. Diet pill websites can easily make large promises about how effective their pills are, but when you read the fine print most of them will tell you that you need to also adopt a diet change and exercise. These kinds of companies at least have a realistic expectation of weight loss, which makes them more credible. However, if a website makes promises that sound too good to be true, that’s probably the case.

While no one has even found the Fountain of Youth, many have tried to bottle it and sell it.  According to Board Certified Plastic Surgeon Hilton Becker, MD, ‘The problem with many products is multi-fold. Many are not created by physicians with the patient in mind, but instead created in labs by people who are not at all familiar with combating the effects of ageing.’ Therefore, Dr Becker has developed and marketed his own brand of anti-ageing products, which he believes to be the finest skin care products available for his patients.


Dr Becker believes that many chemicals often found in anti-ageing products – such as fragrances, colouring agents, thickeners and emulsifiers – do nothing for your wellbeing, and are only added in to make the product more marketable. Therefore, the Becker Skin Care line contains only pure, active ingredients, which provide optimal results by imitating the natural processes taking place in young, healthy skin.


‘Too often many promise to reverse the signs of ageing with mixed success,’ Dr Becker said. ‘My product line is medically proven to work; otherwise it would not bear my name.’ He notes that many people see dramatic results often following the first application and these continue to improve with time. In fact, as Dr Becker is so confident of the effectiveness of his products, he’ll even let you try his anti-ageing skin care cream for free.


He explained, ‘As a plastic surgeon, I am called on to medically reverse the symptoms of ageing. Many insurance companies will not cover elective plastic surgical procedures. My products and specifically my anti-ageing skin care products will help combat against the ravages of aging, free radicals and a multitude of other aging problems. Best of all, no prescription, expensive office visit or surgery is necessary.’


Dr Becker commented, ‘I offer my patients expensive therapies like Botox™, collagen injections and similar techniques that battle ageing. Each of them while certainly beneficial for the short term eventually wears off because the body absorbs them. Our skin care products on the other hand enhance the body’s natural rejuvenation process, as if you were turning back time.’ He added, ‘My moisturizers contain Hyaluronic Acid, a substance that retains water better than any other substance, and the vials contain 100% Hyaluronic Acid.’