Diet Aides That Really Keep You Fit

Reduce Cardiovascular Risk Your heart health is very important. Sodium, saturated fat, and sugar cause serious heart ailments, including death. Eating a healthier diet is proven to reduce this risk, even restoring your heart from heart disease and cardiac damage.  Too Much Sodium Increases Blood Pressure Sodium is both good and bad for the body. Sodium helps with nerve and muscle function and helps to balance the fluids in your body (Medline Plus). 90% of Americans consume too much sodium which increases blood pressure (blood pressure related deaths are around 500,000 annually) and puts people at risk for heart attacks and strokes (CDC). Too much sodium will attract an excess of water into your bloodstream, increasing the blood volume (high blood pressure), and is not always associated with salt, it can be tasteless which is why it is very important to check the labels ( FDA) .  I had no idea sodium was good for the body. I always thought it was bad and associated with high blood press

How Curcumin Dietary Supplements Improves Your Health Image by Corey Ryan Hanson from Pixabay A curcumin dietary supplement is an effective natural potency against age effected diabetes, acts as an anti-inflammatory, and as an antioxidant (Lee et al.). Being described as a potent diabetic fighting agent really stood out to me. I thought it would be minimally effective but not as highly effective as prescription drugs. Curcumin Dietary Supplement Reduces Depression  Curcumin was found to significantly reduce depression symptoms and found to be as highly effective as prescription drugs for certain types of depression (Curcumin). In addition, curcumin was found to have effective anti-cancer properties, neuroprotective, good for your oral health, and works against Alzheimer's Disease (Curcumin).  Great For Your Skin Curcumin is currently being marketed for skin related diseases and is growing every year as an ingredient in skin care products (Cox).  A Natural Allergy and Asthma Fighte

  Modified Citrus Pectin Treats Cancer Can modified citrus pectin (MCP) treat cancer? Its possible however more studies need to be done (Cancer Research UK). Researchers from 2007 studied MCP in cancer patients and found modified citrus pectin to improve the quality of life in cancer patients and in particular slowed the excessive growth of PSA caused by prostate cancer (Cancer Research UK).  Studies have further shown to have an enormous impact in declining certain stages of metastasis and a lesser impact on other stages (Glinsky and Raz).   Although it appears MCP does not directly get rid of cancer, it does have an impact on developed cancer. Modified citrus pectin stops the spread of cancer to other organs and improves the symptoms associated with the disease. Even though significant studies do not show getting rid of cancer completely, studies show it is possible.  Over 300,000 men die each year from the disease and a recent long-term study (12/2021) found 15 grams of MCP each da