| The American Medical Association now | | | | professionals recommend. |
| recommends that everyone take a daily | | | | |
| muli-vitamin. You are probably one of the | | | | It is difficult keeping up with all those |
| individuals doing what your doctor tells you | | | | pills and swallowing them is just too much |
| to do, but are you taking vitamin pills? | | | | hassle; by contrast, a liquid vitamin formula |
| | | | can contain most all the vitamins and |
| Maybe you should be taking your daily | | | | minerals you need. Just one ounce a day mixed |
| vitamins in liquid form, instead. Liquid | | | | in water or your favorite juice. That's an |
| vitamins work better than pills. Vitamin | | | | easy way to get nutritional supplementation! |
| tablets are the original and most prevalent | | | | |
| form for vitamin supplements, but as you | | | | Taking vitamins in pill form is wasteful. |
| know, original is not always best. | | | | Vitamin pills may be only 10 - 20% absorbable |
| | | | according to the Physician's Desk Reference. |
| Liquid vitamin formulas are different. Unlike | | | | By contrast, liquid vitamins are up to 98% |
| tablets they do not require binders to keep | | | | absorbable. This means that if you spend |
| them together, disintegrators to help them | | | | $100 a month on vitamin pills, you may be |
| breakup or artificial colors, flavors, | | | | literally flushing $90 a month down the |
| sweeteners or wax coating materials. | | | | toilet! |
| | | | |
| Binders are great for making a tablet stick | | | | Take the same vitamin formula in liquid form, |
| together, but they are not so good for | | | | and you flush only $2 a month. What could you |
| digestion. You have to be able to digest the | | | | do with the $88 saved? A doctor friend of |
| pill those vitamins are packed into to get | | | | mine told me about a liquid vitamin and |
| the benefit your doctor wants you to have | | | | minerals supplement that cost less than $40 |
| from taking a vitamin supplement. | | | | for a month's supply. Taking the equivalent |
| | | | supplements in pill form cost him over $300. |
| When a vitamin company makes a pill they are | | | | |
| trying to accomplish at least two things. | | | | Compare the supplementation recommendations |
| They want to pack in as many vitamins as they | | | | of leading health professionals to what is |
| can, and they want to keep the pill as small | | | | available in pill form, and you find it |
| as possible. These two goals are | | | | impossible to find a single vitamin pill that |
| contradictory. | | | | contains all the vitamins in their |
| | | | recommended dosages. Add in the recommended |
| This results in many vitamin pills being very | | | | minerals and their dosages, and you find |
| dense or large. Many vitamin pills exhibit | | | | yourself taking handfuls of supplement |
| both characteristics; they are both hard and | | | | tablets. |
| big. Simply put, many vitamin pills are hard | | | | |
| to swallow and just as hard to digest. | | | | A liquid formula can contain the vitamins, |
| | | | minerals, antioxidants and amino acids in a |
| Liquid vitamin supplements have a reduced | | | | balanced dosage ration that allows them to |
| surface tension (below 58 dynes) and can be | | | | make their maximum contribution to your |
| especially beneficial to senior citizens who | | | | health. All this can be combined into a |
| often experience difficulty assimilating | | | | single supplement formula that is easy to |
| nutrients from pills. | | | | take and easy to assimilate. |
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| Many people who do not take their daily | | | | Liquid vitamins provide a better vitamin |
| vitamins report they don't like taking pills. | | | | formula for less money. They are more |
| They find pills hard to swallow. They also | | | | convenient than pills and easy to take. A |
| find they have to take too many pills to get | | | | liquid formula can give you more nutrition |
| all the vitamins and minerals their health | | | | for less money. |