Power Nutrient
Power Nutrient
By Bob Lefavi, PhD, CSCS, CHES
Chairman, Changes Science Advisory Board
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Changes Power Nutrient Products (original Power Nutrient and Ultra Power Nutrient) assist many physiological systems in your body by providing the nutrients they need. These systems, like the immune system, the gastrointestinal system and the skeletal muscle system all need optimal nutrition to perform at a high level. Often, the inadequate intake of even one vitamin or mineral is enough to throw the body off and be a factor in a disease process.
So why doesn t everyone take a good vitamin/mineral supplement like Power Nutrient? Good question! Here are the three main reasons why we should all use Power Nutrient on a daily basis (yes, I do!).
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1) Over the past few decades nutrition scientists have begun to identify and recognize the difference between RDI and what we are now calling ODA. What I mean by that is this: The RDI - the Recommended Daily Intake - was designed to give us a dietary guideline that would enable us to prevent deficiency. For example, the RDI for vitamin C was set at a level of intake not much higher than what it would take to prevent scurvy and other signs of vitamin C deficiency. But after years of research on nutrient intakes and health, nutrition scientists started noticing that the amounts of many nutrients needed to promote optimal health - or the ODA (Optimal Daily Allowance) - was often much higher than the RDI.
For example, a certain amount of vitamin A is needed to prevent night blindness and other symptoms of vitamin A deficiency, but when a higher level of vitamin A and/or its precursor beta-carotene is ingested not only does one prevent vitamin A deficiency, but one's risk of breast cancer and other cancers is significantly reduced. This recognition that the RDI was not enough to rely on for the promotion of optimal health has helped us to rethink the very nature of the adequacy of our diet in our effort to live most healthfully.
2) The processing of foods has removed a large amount of essential nutrients from foods original quality. While we are able to, in some instances, put back some of the nutrients ( enriched foods), we also lose some nutrients that we don' t get back unless we provide them from other sources. We will never be able to get back to the old days when foods were wholesome and fresh when we ate them, but nutrition science has also provided us with a way to make use of a great insurance policy Power Nutrient products.
3) Making matters worse, the typical American diet is woefully inadequate when compared with the level of nutrients we now see as necessary for optimal health. Face it, the usual diet of Americans contains far too many foods that are calorie-rich but nutrient poor! Sugar, alcohol and fat have unfortunately become staples that provide little or no real nutrition for us.
Power Nutrient products are easy to use, great-tasting liquid formulas that contain over 70 major and trace minerals and 100% of the USRDI for 12 essential vitamins. They can form your nutritional foundation for great health and wellness.
Nutritional questions regarding Changes products can be submitted to [email protected].