Many so-called healthy foods – especially snack products – deliver more sugar and calories than is probably merited by the benefits. Our own field of prebiotics shows plenty of examples. One popular yogurt with prebiotics has a whopping 146 calories, 21 grams of sugar and 28 grams total carbs in each serving. Check out our own comparison on Prebiotin Prebiotics.

Other popular “bars” with prebiotics contain loads of high-fructose corn syrup and chocolate chips. Not exactly low on the carbs/sugar list. In the UK, a “chocolate health spread” targeted at kids was recently censured when it was revealed that it would have to be eaten 3x per day (with lots of saturated fat and calories) to deliver significant health benefit.

Bear in mind, it’s not just processed snacks. You also need to be aware of the cost/benefit factor with some common “healthy” foods too. I’m a big fan of fresh fruit, but some sweeter fruits like bananas must be considered carefully for the sugar/carb load versus the nutrient benefit. (Banana is often mentioned as a “good source” of prebiotics, but this is actually a Prebiotic Myth.

So whether your healthy snack delivers fiber, prebiotics, vitamins, minerals or whatever, make sure you consider the nutritional “overhead” you’re getting with it. Vitamin and mineral pills, or standalone supplements (like Prebiotin) can often deliver the same (or better) health building materials at a fraction of the caloric “load”… Not to mention, at a fraction of the price those “health snacks” charge for the privilege of adding corn syrup, saturated fat, cholesterol and other undesirables to the mix!

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Gestational diabetes is a condition that affects pregnant women. This type of diabetes differs from the other types, Type I and Type II diabetes, in that it only affects women that are pregnant and often subsides after the baby is born. It is the direct result of hormonal changes in the body of a pregnant woman. While having diabetes during pregnancy puts women at increased risk for developing Type II diabetes later in life, gestational diabetes does not cause your baby to be born with diabetes, which is great news.

If you have been diagnosed with gestational diabetes, you need to take steps to ensure that neither you or your baby suffer any ill effects from letting it go untreated. While it does not cause your baby to also have diabetes, leaving your diabetes untreated can cause your baby to produce too much insulin while in the womb and gain too much weight, increasing the risk for premature delivery. After delivery, your gestational diabetes will often subside and go away on its own.

To treat your diabetes and make sure you and your baby remain healthy, you must watch your diet carefully. Carbohydrates are often the cause of elevated blood sugar, so care must be taken when eating them. A gestational diabetes diet is ideally balanced, rich in vitamins and nutrients so your growing baby gets all he or she needs to be strong, and full of foods that will help you keep your blood sugar levels on an even keel. Small snacks throughout the day will help maintain glucose levels evenly, and eating about the same amount of carbohydrates at each meal time will do the same, except for at breakfast, when you should eat the least amount of carbs, because that is when insulin resistance is at its strongest throughout the day.

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Dan

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Neti pots – Doctors and studies agree that neti pots do work. What is a net pot? A neti pot is a small plastic container with a spout that you use to pour a saline solution in your nose. Dr. Oz, the “Oprah” doctor is a big fan of the neti pot. Basically the pot assists you in rinsing out your sinuses which helps drain nasal passages and keep your breathing clear.

Chicken soup – Homemade or canned works to ease upper-respiratory symptoms caused by colds.

Zinc - What is the purpose of zinc? Many studies indicate that when taken early in a cold, zinc can keep the virus from replicating, reducing the time you’re sick by 50 percent. Take 13 to 25 mg per day.

Echinacea fact- Jury is still out on echinacea, some studies say it is effective others say it is not.

Acupuncture - A few studies have shown that people getting acupuncture has helped their immune systems but results are preliminary.

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True. You can buy inulin or generic FOS for a bit less. And there’s a reason: the full-spectrum prebiotic we use in Prebiotin is more researched, more effective and just a better choice than these simple prebiotics. Yes, it’s a little more expensive, but we don’t believe in marketing a “good enough” or “second-best” product.

Why is it better? The special all-natural plant-derived compound we use in Prebiotin – oligofructose-enriched-inulin or “OEI” for short – impacts the entire colon, not just some of it as does plain inulin or oligosaccharide alone.

Think of it this way… If you had a sinus infection, and the doctor offered you an antibiotic that worked only on the left side of your nose, an antibiotic that only worked on the right side of your nose, or an antibiotic that worked on both sides, your choice would be clear, right?

That’s exactly the difference between a simple prebiotic and a full-spectrum prebiotic like Prebiotin. Here’s why:

• Prebiotics come in short-chain and long-chain forms, which simply indicates how many links are in each molecule.
• Short-chain prebiotics like FOS have between 2 and 8 links, Short chain prebiotics are fermented quickly in the right side of the colon to nourish the good bacteria there,
• Long-chain prebiotics like Inulin have from 9 to 64 links. Long chain prebiotics persist through to the left colon and are fermented there.
• But OEI is a ‘full spectrum prebiotic’ and has the whole range, including molecules ranging from 2 to 64 links. As a full-spectrum prebiotic, with short- and long-chain molecules, Prebiotin’s OEI nourishes the entire colon

So as simply as possible, that’s the exact answer. We use OEI because it’s a more impactful prebiotic, pure and simple. And it also happens to be the most researched prebiotic too. Just head to our prebiotics research page at Prebiotin.com to see more about that.

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Well, I know some really atypical folks, it seems. Because it turns out only 14% of us eat enough fruits and vegetables, according to USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-09-29-fruits-veggies-high-school-kids_N.htm?csp=34).

Now if I were to believe what people tell me, it’s about reversed. Nearly 90% of the folks I talk to are convinced they eat a diet rich enough in fiber, nutrients, prebiotics, etc. that they need no supplements.

BZZZZZT! Wrong answer. No soup for you!

I KNOW many of these people and KNOW what they eat… So I call “nonsense” on that.

Here’s the simple truth: I don’t think even one single adult in this country is unaware that eating fruits and veggies is healthy and we generally need more. We are not UNAWARE of this issue, we’re just (for the most part) UNWILLING to fix it!

And I’m no exception either. I’m pretty health- and nutrition-aware myself. Our family has actually moved to eating vegetarian at least 5 days a week. And even at that, I’d say our diet is “okay” not “great.” I eat healthy most of the time, then “unwilling” kicks in and kills it with a weak moment when I slam down a double-bacon-cheeseburger with fries at 5 Guys.

Even more worrisome to me are those who have bought into the “health marketing” of “enriched” or “enhanced” foods – you know, when they take what amounts to a candy bar, jam some fiber in it, and say it’s a “health bar.” This is the group that says “I know I get enough fiber because I eat a {Brand F} fiber bar every morning?” or “I eat Brand Y Yogurt + Fiber for breakfast.”
Oh really? So that fiber bar… that’s Brand F bar with the 30g of high-fructose corn syrup and chocolate-icing swirls on top, right? And the yogurt is the same Brand Y with the chemical artificial sweetener, artificial red dye and 1/3 your RDA of sodium, isn’t it? Or maybe you meant you eat Brand Q’s instant oatmeal with even more sugar in it? Oh yeah, THAT’s the foundation of a healthy diet, my friend… I could go on. There are far, far too many examples. Seems like we’ll do about anything to avoid what we know we _should_ do: eat Fruits, Vegetables, Whole Grains, Fish, Lean Meats, etc..

The marketing of fat- sugar- and salt-laden foods as “healthy” just because they have some vitamins, fiber, etc. shot into them genuinely annoys me. Don’t even start me on vitamin-enriched soda… It annoys me because it is basically nothing more or less than actively “fooling” folks who are actually TRYING to eat right. Shame on the folks that do it!

Honestly, I’m not even criticizing everyday folks too much here! It’s tough – really tough – to truly eat a good, balanced, healthy diet all day every day. It takes more time to prepare fresh food, it takes commitment to change ingrained (poor) eating habits. It’s often more expensive to eat fresh foods than buy the the “box-o-rice” dinner. Children complicate it further “But they can have chicken nuggets and fries at Jimmy’s house!!” And it surely doesn’t help when someone’s blasting ads at you trying to convince you that a candy bar is healthy, or a yogurt with the entire amount of sugar you should eat in a day is “good for you.”

Mind you, I’m not making excuses for the folks who breakfast on McEggs, McBacon, and McDonut, have a chili-cheese-dog with chili-cheese-fries for lunch and deep fried ‘frankenstein’ chicken strips for dinner, and claim they ate healthy because they had a baked potato for dinner (with sour cream, butter and salt, mind you). There comes a point where you have effectively said “I’m not even going to try.” And the real shame of it is, I understand why people don’t even try (for all the reasons noted above)

I’m talking about those of us really trying to do the right thing, but getting caught up in the whirl – the kids getting ads for the sugar-fried-fat-dye#5 snacks that are shoved at them night and day, the busy day where dinner is late and “just order chinese” is all too tempting. And the fact that eating out healthily at anything but a specialized “health” restaurant is all-but-impossible.

And then there’s the specific issue of Prebiotics, which you knew I had to bring up, right?

Let me be pretty clear… Unless you regularly (as in daily) eat a very-dense prebiotic source like Chicory Root or Dandelion Greens, you’re almost certainly NOT getting enough prebiotic fiber. Or, if you are, you’re getting way to much “load” of sugar, calories, carbs and such along with it. It’s simply math: If something contains 1/5 your daily serving of prebiotic fiber, 1/2 your daily calories and 2/3 your daily carbs, getting your full daily prebiotic from that will overload you on the others!

While many many foods have prebiotic fiber in them, very few have enough ‘density’ to offset the other factors. Wheat is a great example. Wheat has prebiotics. Most Americans get most of the prebiotics they eat from wheat (though not enough). But using wheat as your primary source of prebiotics doesn’t work! If you get a full serving of prebiotics from wheat, you will be FAR over your carbs for the day, plain and simple.

And in any case, I can virtually guarantee that you’re not getting enough full-spectrum prebiotics, since most food sources provide mostly inulin – a longer-chain prebiotic that mostly nourishes only the left side of your colon. That’s why considering Prebiotin prebiotic fiber supplement is certainly well worth a few moment’s thought: Full spectrum prebiotics, fiber, and in our new formulas, heart, bone and regularity enhancing all-natural ingredients.

Okay, enough ranting. Just understand this: When you say “I don’t need {Prebiotin, Fiber, Multivitamin, Fish Oil, etc} supplement because I eat a healthy diet,” there is a reason I shake my head slowly side to side with a doubtful look on my face…

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1. Olive oil is an outstanding selection to lower cholesterol naturally. Olive oil is high-level in monounsaturated fats which are reckoned to prevent the combination of cholesterol by the body. This oil is a fruit-juice, which is cold hard-pressed olive juice and olives are a fruit. Olive oil lowers bad cholesterol (LDL) but doesn’t let down good cholesterol (HDL). Olive oil compounds additionally improve enzymes with the purpose of prevent instigation of carcinogens and enhance their ejection from the body. These compounds appear to deliberate development of cancer cells and snowball their self-destruction.

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