Keep Your Healthy Habits for the New Year

These days our economy is forcing us to be more frugal than in the past years. With costs like health care and prescriptions rising, along with everything else, it’s good to know that you can still supplement your health without going broke. SupplementsToGo is still providing quality products at prices that allow you to maintain your healthy lifestyle and supplement regimen.



After working so hard to make the right nutrition choices you want to keep the gains you made last year. Getting essential vitamins and minerals is important for a healthy diet. For many of us, our food choices do not always provide enough of the nutrients our bodies need, so adding dietary supplements into the daily routine has become a more popular way to get the nutrients our bodies need.

With so many choices it’s hard to know where to start sometimes. We hear everything from fiber, Vitamin C, the B Vitamins, Calcium, Potassium and Magnesium, multivitamins, and the list goes on depending on the particular needs.

In order to begin the year with healthy habits, here is a short list of popular supplements that others are getting online in order to benefit their healthy lifestyle resolutions. For strong healthy bones Calcium, Magnesium, Zinc and/or a Vitamin D supplement. Your immune system gets added support from Vitamin C.

One of my main supplements is Fish Oil which is well known for its ability to help the heart and cardiovascular system, and the B Complex vitamins play an important role in giving us more energy. Lutein is important for clear, healthy vision. These nutrients play different, but essential roles in your well-being.

Keep in mind that even though our country’s financial system is a little out of whack right now, don’t let your healthy lifestyle suffer also. STG can help make your life easier, and a whole lot healthier. Add lots of these essential nutrients to your daily regimen, and enjoy the endless benefits of good health at cheap prices you can live with.

I take a statin to lower cholesterol … Why take fish oil?

Recently Dr William Davis who writes articles for healthcentral.com recommended that one of his patients add fish oil to their heart disease prevention regimen.

The question was whether to stop taking fish oil, because they were already taking a cholesterol drug, and the statin drug is so powerful that it should eliminate the need. His answer was No. It's not even close to the truth.

Even if one believed all statin drug research studies, you would know they were paid for the pharmaceutical industry. It's not a shock that studies paid for by the sponsor are likely to favor the sponsor.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the data doesn't contain some truth, but the benefits could be overstated. Even so, it's clear from the hundreds of studies performed that a statin drug like Lipitor, can help reduce heart attacks and death from heart disease by 30-35%, but not eliminate risk totally.

The benefits of adding omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil to statins are documented in a trial, in which 19,000 Japanese participants experienced a 19% relative reduction in cardiovascular events when 1800 mg of EPA (alone) was added to a statin drug. What makes this study especially remarkable is the fact that it occurred in the Japanese, whose intake of omega-3 from diet is already fairly high, usually ranging from 1800-3000 mg EPA + DHA per day. Benefits for less enthusiastic fish eaters, like myself, would be expected to be even greater.

Omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil also:

Reduce triglycerides dramatically - an effect that is dependent on the dose of EPA + DHA used.

Accelerate after-eating clearance of digestive by-products, i.e., they correct post-prandial abnormalities. Post-prandial abnormalities are potent causes of carotid and vascular disease.

Modify the character (fragmentation potential, structural strength) of plaque. People taking fish oil have firmer, more stable, less fragmentable plaque.

Raise HDL modestly - If you buy fish oil from worldclassnutrition, supplementstogo, other discounters, a healthy dose of fish oil might cost you $3 per month. Compare that to the $120 per month average cost of a statin agent.

So, do statin drugs make omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil unnecessary? … NOT. Adding omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil, or eating fish permits us to get closer, not to reduction, but towards elimination of risk for heart disease.