Maximize your multivitamins

You can maximize the absorption of multivitamins by taking them with a meal. Food increases absorption and minimizes the chance the vitamin will upset your stomach.

To help making taking your multivitamin a habit (many people have multivitamins but don’t take them), take it with the same meal everyday.

If you take them with breakfast, don’t wash them down with coffee though. Caffeine can prevent absorption of some vitamins & minerals.

Create a healthier environment

I was just watching TV & was inspired by a commercial, of all things. Most of what I have written here has been about things you can do to make yourself healthier, but another way to improve things is to make your environment healthier, or at least less damaging to your health and that of others.

Most of you will have seen An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s environmental documentary–if you haven’t seen it, you should. The point here is that we should also worry about the health of the earth, as well as our own. If the planet is sick, we will soon be too.

So what can you do, on an everyday basis? Here are some ideas:

1) Turn off , or hibernate, your PC when not in use.

2) If you are thinking of getting a new PC, consider a laptop as they use less power.

3) Turn off lights, or get motion detectors installed so lights are only on where & when you need them.

4) Use reusable shopping bags rather than plastic.

5) Walk more, drive less. Take transit or get a bicycle.

6) Use environmentally-friendly cleaning products.

7) Get a reusable stainless steel or glass water bottle.

These are just some things you can do everyday that will help.

I would now like to hear from you readers for some other ideas. What do you do daily to save the planet? Submit your ideas as comments & I will post a list of them for us all to use.

Some feedback on reusing plastic water bottles

Had a comment from Greg saying that he had found sites (below) that indicate that all this fear of reusing, or even using, plastic water bottles is unfounded.

This is exactly why I started this blog: One day you read one thing, the next the exact opposite, what & who are you to believe? Greg went and researched a little & now knows that there is a potential problem with plastic bottles, will make his own decisions, and that is all I hope to accomplish here.

Greg’s articles site the US FDA among others.  Can you trust the FDA? Are they really looking out for public health or are they simply all about the money as Kevin Trudeau believes. If you haven’t read Kevin Trudeau’s Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About you should, then decide how much you trust the FDA. I am going to look out for my own health & not leave it up to them. Heck, you can taste the plastic in the water if its been in the bottle awhile, so the water must absorb something…

I do not know if plastic water bottles are safe or not, but I am at least aware of the possibility of a health risk from a daily activity most of us think of as a healthy habit, namely drinking pure bottled water. How easy is it to use a glass or stainless steel bottle instead?

If the possible health risk isn’t enough to convince you then how about the environmental aspect of reducing plastic bottle use?

Healthier for you and for the earth, but you decide…

Thanks for the comment Greg.

Greg’s articles:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.asp
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/a/bottled-water.htm