Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) November 18, 2009 — The December 2009 holiday issue of REAL SIMPLE Magazine features an informative article on multiple vitamin supplements, in their health section. In the article entitled “Decoding Multivitamins”, REAL SIMPLE selected seven (7) multi vitamin products to review. Among the familiar classics such as One-a-Day?® and Centrum?® REAL SIMPLE has also included ALL ONE?® Original Formula from Nutritech?®. ALL ONE is the ONLY powder reviewed in the article.

Says Nutritech owner Doug Ingoldsby: “We are honored to have been selected out of hundreds of vitamin manufacturers to be one of the 7 top vitamin brands reviewed by REAL SIMPLE. This is especially significant as this selection was completely unsolicited and quite honestly, an unexpected surprise for us here at Nutritech.”

We are honored to have been selected out of hundreds of vitamin manufacturers to be one of the 7 top vitamin brands reviewed by REAL SIMPLE

REAL SIMPLE, a magazine known for recommending simple solutions to real problems likes the powder approach to multiple vitamins and supplements: “A heaping tablespoon contains the vitamins and minerals that you would get from several pills.” They continue their review by emphasizing the purity, and bio availability, of a multiple powder supplement: “Tablets contain fillers and binding agents that the body has to break down before the nutrients can be absorbed … powders don’t require these.”

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See REAL SIMPLE mention below. ALL ONE was the ONLY powder reviewed and there were NO liquids included!

Liquid Vitamin Supplements Lack the Power of Powders

In recent years there has been an increased interest in finding the best way to take nutritional supplements, as a result the popularity of liquid vitamins and minerals has grown. The benefits of not having to swallow pills and evidence of increased absorption possible from a liquid supplement certainly makes sense. We have had many of our stores and regular customers ask us why doesn’t ALL ONE make a liquid supplement?

WE DO!

Once you mix ALL ONE with the beverage of your choice it is a liquid vitamin. All the absorption benefits of a liquid and so much more.

Ready-to-drink liquids just don’t have the potency, purity and variety of ALL ONE Powders.

See also: Choosing the Best Multi Vitamin

The reasoning behind liquid supplements is valid.?  We knew that taking your vitamins and minerals in a liquid form was beneficial 35 years ago when we developed the original ALL ONE Powder.?  However, we discovered way back then that a pre-mixed liquid vitamin and mineral supplement fall short for the following reasons: Due to taste and stability factors, premixed liquid multiples are low in potency and necessitate the need for preservatives to keep the nutrients from breaking down.  Also, premixed liquid supplements add flavorings to mask the taste and suspending agents to keep the nutrients in the fluid.

The Bad News About Liquid Vitamins

People buy liquid supplements to improve their health and because they absorb better than vitamin pills. But ironically, they could unwittingly be doing irreversible damage to their bodies. Studies show that the chemical makeup of any liquid vitamin supplement containing sodium benzoate or potassium benzoate is the perfect environment for the formation of benzene when combined with ascorbic acid, or vitamin C. Benzene has been linked to leukemia and other cancers of the blood and can cross the placenta, affecting the fetus. It has also been linked to hyperactivity in children.

These qualities set ALL ONE powders apart from liquid vitamins:

Potency - ALL ONE powders are some of the highest potency products available. Read and compare the labels; 1000mg of Vitamin C, up to 1125mg of Calcium, a complete B complex, 400IU of Vitamin E, and up to 15,000IU of Vitamin A with beta carotene.  You get all that along with a complete accompaniment of micronutrients, important amino acids, digestive enzymes and other beneficial whole food factors for a complete body balance. No premixed liquid can physically hold that many nutrients.

Purity - ALL ONE powders contain no yeast, gluten, sweeteners, flavorings, binders, fillers or preservatives. Again read the label.  All liquids include some kind of preservative to keep the water soluble vitamins from breaking down as well as additional non-nutritive ingredients to keep the vitamins suspended in solution. Liquids are also often loaded with flavorings and sweeteners.

Taste - Most all liquids are flavored and sweetened. Even if this is done with “natural” flavors you are still stuck with the exact same flavor day after day, and who needs to regularly supplement their diet with flavorings and sweeteners anyway??  With ALL ONE powders you have limitless options.?  You can mix it in a variety of juices, rice and soy drinks – heck even chocolate milk. Many pre-made smoothies and protein drinks available now are also great options.

Check out this chart for a quick comparison of ALL ONE with some of the popular liquid vitamins available.

The difference is clear, premixed liquids are lacking. When mixed with water or juice, ALL ONE powder makes the best liquid vitamins and minerals!

See also post on nutrient absorption.

Children’s vitamins should NOT be candy: They’re colorful, chewy, and come in fun shapes like elephants, dinosaurs, and cartoon characters. But unfortunately they are flavored and sweetened to taste just like candy. Many children’s vitamins taste like candy because they basically are candy. They contain many ingredients that are found in most sweets. The ingredients of one gummy type vitamin included the following -glucose syrup, sucrose, gelatin and magnesium stearate. The traditional Gummi Bear candy is made from sugar, glucose syrup, starch, flavoring, food coloring and gelatin. Other common ingredients used in chewable vitamins are fructose, sorbitol, and cherry flavoring.

Many so-called ‘children’s vitamins’ contain only tiny amounts of actual nutrients, and some brands entirely omit the vitamins that growing kids need the most.

Most children’s supplements contain vitamins only. No minerals (though some do) and no amino acids (the building blocks of protein). To be ‘complete’ they should have vitamins, minerals and amino acids.

Fillers and colorings – less is better – NONE is Best!

Children can sometimes have allergic reactions to the additives put in their vitamin pills. Parents should look for “hypo-allergenic” brands that contain no colorings or flavorings.

The Feingold Association has long recommended that parents of children who suffer from learning difficulties, ADHD or Autism, avoid artificial sweeteners, flavorings, colors and preservatives as these appear to aggravate their conditions. They say most ADHD problems come from the very same colorings, dyes, sweeteners and additives that are found in most kid’s supplements! The ALL ONE Kids contains NO sweeteners, colorings or additives and is one of the few children’s supplements approved by the Feingold Association.

ALL ONE Kids is the ONLY additive free, sweetener free, color free supplement for kids.

Don’t compromise when it comes to optimal health and nutrition for your kids. ALL ONE Kids offers a welcome alternative to many of the candy-like supplements currently available. ALL ONE Kids is the ONLY additive free, sweetener free, color free supplement for kids. It is gluten, yeast, soy and dairy free. And is truly a complete nutritional supplement supplying essential amino acids, as well as, vitamins and minerals in appropriate amounts. This vegan formula is also versatile as it can be mixed in rice milk, or juice, and even stirred into yogurt or applesauce. ALL ONE Kids makes a great smoothie too! With so many fun options your kids will actually enjoy taking their vitamins every day.

The reality is that in an industry this large, simply due to the vast scale and volume, many of the key ingredients are produced by a limited number of raw material manufacturers. Therefore, there is a very good chance that the Thiamine (Vitamin B-1) or Riboflavin (B-2) found in those cute, pretty colored vitamins jumping out of the airplane, in Centrum tablet television ads come from the same supplier that we use here at ALL ONE and most likely the same B-1 and B-2 that is used by the company that is claiming they are the best vitamin brand because they “grow” their vitamins. It is a similar story when it comes to the important minerals like Calcium.

What makes ALL ONE the best Vitamin brand?

Two things make ALL ONE the best vitamin brand. Not a fortune spent on television advertising. Not some mumbo jumbo fairy tale about squeezing vitamins from plants … just two simple things:

1. Mode of administration.? How you get the nutrients into your body. Not a compressed tablet which contains binders, fillers, disintegrating agents, coatings and other non nutritive additives. Not a pre made liquid that contains flavorings, sweeteners, suspending agents and artificial preservatives. ALL ONE is unique in a billion dollar supplement market in the sense that it is the only complete pure nutrient multiple powder free of any sweeteners and flavorings ALL ONE is pure nutrition and nothing else.

2. Combination of ingredients. More complete than any liquid or tablet ALL ONE contains protein which provides generous portions of naturally occurring amino acids important in the assimilation of Calcium and other minerals as well as well as providing a natural “food base” for ALL ONE’s complete vitamin profile.

In a highly competitive supplement market place these two simple things make ALL ONE the best vitamin brand.

Many people think that they can get all the nutrients they need by following a healthy diet plan or on the other hand they believe it doesn’t matter what they eat as long as they take their multi vitamin tablet each day. Well unfortunately in both these scenarios their overall nutritional status will come up short.

As a result of over processing and over planting the food we eat today has considerably less nutritional value than food we ate in the 20′s and 30′s, the only way an individual can really achieve a high nutritional status from their diet would be to eat 100% organic, this includes meat, milk, veggies, fruits and grains, a pretty difficult and expensive commitment.

Alternatively just relying on a multivitamin and mineral nutritional supplement tablet may also leave the body wanting for more nutrition. The over all bioavailability of a tablet is questionable as is the potency. So how does one achieve optimum nutrition and not go broke? A quality nutritional supplement powder.

Following a healthy diet plan is a good start, try to include organic when possible and limit the amount of processed foods you consume, knowing that not only are they not adding much nutritional value they often can contribute to the nutritional drain. But one of the easiest and economical things you can do to ensure optimum nutrition is to include a complete multi vitamin and mineral nutritional supplements powder as a regular part of your daily routine.

Unlike tablets or pills, the powder form is high potency and easy for your body to digest and absorb. Nutritional supplements can play a significant role in ensuring your best nutritional status, by combining with a healthy diet plan you can rest assured you are doing what you can to stay at the top of your game.

On the road with your immune system.

So you are burning the candle at both ends. Not feeling too great. Two red-eyes in the past month and deadlines pending. No time to get sick, no time to even slow down. But what can you do? This is just the way things are, right? Wrong. Now is when your immune system needs support the most. This is when taking a high quality nutritional supplement on a regular basis really pays off.

For everyday use powdered vitamins and minerals are the supplement of choice because they are pure, high potency and assimilated more easily by the body being recognized as food, not just isolated nutrients. Try it. Give it three months. Three months of consistent, everyday, use of a healthy nutritional supplement. Your get up and go will be running on all four cylinders even if you are running it at unreasonable RPM’s.

The long awaited vacation.
How often have you waited all year for that 1 week on the beach just to come down with a cold your first day away? This is often your body’s way of letting you know it is run down. Finally when given a chance to heal, it takes it.

Now this is the very time you need to give your body more support in the way of nutrition. But this is not always the case. Who wants to have veggies and rice with hot herbal tea when the margaritas and local fare looks much more appealing, it is your vacation after all. This is where making nutritional supplements a regular part of your vacation essentials will help you get the most from your holidays. Often regular vitamin takers stop taking their supplements while on holiday because they understand the effects stress has on their immunity. They take supplements while working hard, but on vacation there is no stress, right? Well maybe parts of it can be pleasurable and complete bliss. But what about the late plane, the traffic to the airport, the lost bags and that person who kept coughing two rows ahead of you? Maybe your immune system still needs the support, what do you think?

Did you know that EVERYONE over the age of 30 is losing calcium? It is unavoidable. Regardless of your sex, race, environment, occupation or economic status, you will get senile osteoporosis to some degree. It’s just how the body works.

We often think of calcium as an important mineral for kids and post-menopausal women- true. But it certainly does not stop there and if you think it does, then you are missing out on the chance to take an easy to facilitate active role in your health. By including high quality nutritional supplements and following a healthy diet plan you have the means to keep your bones strong and your calcium levels adequate.

Osteoporosis, which means “porous bones,” currently affects over 25 million Americans. Right now the expectation is that after 50, half of all women and one in eight men will eventually develop an osteoporosis related fracture. These numbers are expected to rise. This is due to substandard eating habits that have become the norm. Government surveys have revealed that 87% of teenage girls and 64% of teenage boys are not getting adequate calcium. Without the calcium necessary to build their maximum bone density, these individuals will already be starting in a bone calcium deficit when they hit their 30′s and the natural bone decalcification process begins. Not to mention the numerous contraindicated behaviors that can negatively affect calcium absorption and retention. It is from 0-35 years of age that you can make the biggest positive impact on your bone health.

What does calcium do?
Calcium, along with other minerals, is involved in vitamin function and is essential to the synthesis of hormones and enzymes. The role calcium plays is so crucial that the body has metabolic mechanisms in place to keep blood calcium serum levels constant using the bones as a calcium reservoir. 99% of the body’s calcium is in the bones coming and going in regular cycles, making bone an easy to access calcium reserve.
Calcium is also part of an essential group of electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, and potassium) responsible for controlling the sending of nerve impulses from one part of the body to another. It plays an important role in promoting muscle contraction particularly the heart muscle. Other uses of calcium include improving the tone and elasticity of our muscles and ligaments, it helps blood to clot, reduces fatty substances in the blood (including cholesterol), reinforces the immune system and displaces some toxic substances from the body. Between 250 mgs and 400 mgs of calcium are lost daily in these normal body functions. If we lose more then we absorb then calcium will be taken from the bone to maintain a 1% blood calcium serum level. This bone leeching can go on for years unrecognized.

Major contributors to calcium deficiency.
Because prevention is the best medicine, it is important to be familiar with the primary contributors to calcium depletion and poor absorption.

???Vitamin and mineral imbalance/deficiency- Such as vitamin D, K, C, B6 and folic acid, as well as the minerals magnesium, boron, manganese, zinc, copper and silicon.
It is best to address this with a quality multivitamin and mineral supplement with chelated minerals and pure ingredients.

??? High intake of phosphorus. It should be at about 1:1 with calcium; unfortunately in the US it is frequently as much as four times that of calcium.
Processed foods, meat and soft drinks are primary contributors of phosphorus in the American diet. It could be possible to ingest the required gram of calcium each day only to result in further calcium loss, as any phosphorus exceeding a gram will cause the body to pull calcium from the bones.

??? Too much protein. Protein digestion results in acid residues, which have to be neutralized by alkaline minerals like calcium. Meat is also high in phosphorus.
The adult standard for protein is 54 grams per day. This would equal a cup of cooked lentils (15gm), a cup of nonfat milk or yogurt (9), six ounces of tofu (12gm), an egg (6gm), and a two-ounce serving of halibut (12gm).

??? Too much fat. The saturated fats found in meat and dairy products combine with calcium, yielding insoluble calcium ‘soap’ which is excreted from the body.
On the other hand, unsaturated fats make calcium available for tissue use and help maintain serum levels.

??? Caffeine. Even in small amounts, caffeine interferes with normal bone remodeling and contributes to the loss of calcium through the urine.
Two cups of brewed coffee are equal to 300mg of caffeine. This amount is capable of leaching 15mg of calcium from your body.

Some people are more at risk then others. The acknowledged risk factors are:
?· Short stature
?· Slender body type
?· Small-bones
?· Fair complexion
?· Smoking
?· Excess alcohol intake
?· Low dietary calcium
?· Lack of exercise

Supplement for health.
So now you know that calcium isn’t just for bones and that it plays a crucial role in your overall health no matter your age or gender. You know that it can’t do it on its own and requires other essential nutrients to be absorbed and utilized properly. You also know that there is a great number of us that are deficient and the numbers are growing. So…

Now you can make an educated choice to supplement your daily diet with a healthy nutritional supplement that includes these essential nutrients to ensure a strong skeleton, a healthy nervous system and a fit heart.