Friday, March 26, 2010

Digestive Issues: Herbs for Digestion

Digestive problems and bloating are uncomfortable and can disturb your life. These difficulties can range from heartburn, to upset stomach to gas, diarrhea and bloating. If your digestive system is unable of absorbing the minerals, vitamins, and nutrients it needs from the food you eat, it won’t matter how healthy your diet is.

Now day's digestive problems are so wide spread because of our obsessive need to eat processed foods that lack these ever so important nutrients. The really great thing is supplementing your diet with these effective herbs daily has proven helpful at alleviating most of the common digestive problems we face as a modern society. Most of the people prefer herbs for digestion over pharmaceutical drugs because they are more natural, easier on the digestive system.

Herbs are usually used to treat digestive problems such as diarrhea, constipation, indigestion and intestinal gas. There are some following common herbs are for digestion and their specific uses.

1. Ginger

2. Fennel

3. Peppermint

4. Carminative oil

Herbal medicines are always treating your whole body not just one symptom. So, taking expensive prescriptive medicine is not the best reply to all medical conditions, but looking for the advantages of herbal medicine is a really wonderful and less expensive way of taking care of your self.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Twinlab Launches New Resveratrol Supplement for Adults

Today at Natural Products Expo West 2010, Twinlab Corporation introduced the newest addition to their famous DOTS(TM) product line, a quick-dissolve resveratrol pill. Each pill features 32mg of concentrated 98% trans-resveratrol, very beneficial antioxidant found in red wine.

The ground-breaking fast -dissolve DOT delivery allows for an absorption rate 25-times improved than that of a traditional oral supplement capsule when used as directed.
Twinlab's formula is free of wheat, soy, milk, starch, lactose, egg, fish, yeast and vegetarian. It contains no artificial flavors, preservatives or colors. Customers can expect the product to be available at retailers across the nation by the end of the month.

Twinlab's Resveratrol Max DOTS provides our customers with an easy way to get the antioxidant benefits of resveratrol in a convenient, concentrated form." About Twinlab Twinlab Corporation (http://www.twinlab.com) is a leading marketer and manufacturer and of science-based, high quality, nutritional supplements, including a complete line of minerals, vitamins, herbs, sports nutrition products, and teas.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Stevia – One Herb with Multiple Benefits

Stevia sweetener became approved in the USA as a food additive and is rapidly growing in popularity due to its various benefits. It is healthy, low crab foods. A vast majority of study and projects conducted on stevia have concluded that it may be the only sweetener that is actually good and safe for people. It has been used for many years for its medicinal purposes. It has been used as an antibacterial, anti fungal, anti inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-viral, and anti-yeast product. It is used by diabetics and hypoglycemic. It is also used as a diuretic. Stevia has been used for centuries by native South American tribes as a sweetener in yerba mate and medicinal teas for treating heartburn and other ailments. It has also been used in different food products and it can help individuals maintain normal blood sugar levels, and it is a zero calorie sweetener.