The LifeSource Vitamins Ultra Teen Multi provides older children, teens, and adults with a complete multivitamin containing 100% of the Daily Allowance of 29 vitamins, minerals & nutrients that are all too often inadequately supplied in our teens' daily diet. Our Ultra Teen Multivitamins contain higher potencies than in typical children's supplements, in a combination that gives special attention to the balance and bio-availability of nutrients.

Why a Multi just for your teen?

Great question: Here are just a few things that happen when you are not nutritionally balanced as a Teen; Skin Disorders (Acne), Attention issues, Mood changes and swings, Poor Sleeping, which lack of sleep is so bad for our kids. As we all know, our teens just want to eat what they want to eat, which hasn't changed much since they were much younger, we all want what tastes good to us, but this is when your teen needs to supplement their diets to head off deficiencies which bring on all kinds of issues. These are excellent and they will eat them as they taste great, so they like them and you know that between the chips, etc, they are getting some balance in their diet. Try them, I think you will love the outcome.

Bruce Brightman - founder LifeSource Vitamins

Fuel for Growth

People go through a lot of physical changes - including growth and puberty - during their teenage years. Eating right during this time is especially important because the body needs a variety of vitamins and minerals to grow, develop, and stay healthy.

Eating a variety of foods is the best way to get all the vitamins and minerals you need each day, as well as the right balance of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and calories. Whole or unprocessed foods - like fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, lean meats, fish, and poultry - are the best choices for providing the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy and grow properly.

It's OK to eat foods like potato chips and cookies once in a while, but you don't want to overdo high-calorie foods like these that offer little nutritionally.

To choose healthy foods, check food labels and pick items that are high in vitamins and minerals. For example, if you're choosing beverages, you'll find that a glass of milk is a good source of vitamin D and the minerals calcium, phosphorus, and potassium. A glass of soda, on the other hand, offers very few vitamins or minerals - if any.

You can also satisfy your taste buds without sacrificing nutrition while eating out: Vegetable pizzas or fajitas, sandwiches with lean cuts of meat, fresh salads, and baked potatoes are just a few delicious, nutritious choices.

If you're a vegetarian, you'll need to plan carefully for a diet that offers the vitamins and minerals found primarily in meats. The best sources for the minerals zinc and iron are meats, fish, and poultry. However, you can get zinc and iron in dried beans, seeds, nuts, and leafy green vegetables like kale.

Vitamin B12, which is important for manufacturing red blood cells, is not found in plant foods. If you don't eat meat, you can find vitamin B12 in eggs, milk, and other dairy foods, and fortified breakfast cereals. Vegans (vegetarians who eat no animal products at all, including dairy products) may need to take vitamin supplements. If you're thinking about becoming a vegetarian, talk to your doctor or a registered dietitian about how to plan a healthy, balanced diet.*


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What you can do to help?

Adolescents are becoming more independent and making many food decisions on their own. Adolescents tend to eat more meals away from home than younger children. They are also heavily influenced by their peers.

Meal convenience is important to many adolescents and they may be eating too much of the wrong types of food (such as soft drinks, fast-food and processed foods).

Further, a common concern of many adolescents is dieting. Girls may feel pressure from peers to be thin and to limit what they eat. Both boys and girls may diet to 'make weight' and 'look good' for a particular sporting or social event. So we need to try to encourage a healthy weight, making food choices that are healthy, and being involved in some physical activity each day.

The following are some tips to help adolescents develop healthy eating habits:

• Arrange for teenagers to find out about nutrition for themselves.
• Encourage and support their interest in health, cooking, or nutrition.
• Take their suggestions, when possible, regarding foods to prepare at home.
• Experiment with foods outside your own culture.
• Have several nutritious snack foods readily available. Sometimes, teenagers will eat whatever is convenient.
• If there are foods that you do not want your teenager to eat, avoid bringing them into the home.
• Avoid buying high-calorie desserts or snacks, such as snack chips, regular soft drinks or regular ice cream.
• Provide a good role model of healthy eating and living for your teenager to follow.
• Discuss the following healthy eating recommendations with your adolescent to help ensure a healthy eating plan:
• Eat three meals a day, with healthy snacks.
• Eat plenty of fiber and limit the use of salt.
• Drink a lot of fresh filtered water.
• Try to avoid or at least limit caffeinated drinks and drinks with high sugar content.
• When cooking, try to steam, bake (without added fats or oils) or broil instead of frying.
• Try to avoid high sugar and refined carbohydrate foods.
• Eat fresh fruit or vegetables for a snack.
• Try to eat at least five servings of fresh fruit and vegetables per day.
• Eat more chicken and fish than red meats.

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They’re not children anymore, but they’re definitely not adults. Teenagers are in a tough spot, in many areas of life—socially, emotionally, and physically. Their bodies change at a very rapid pace, with growth spurts that transform their body size and sleep and eating patterns, not to mention hormone fluctuations that affect their skin appearance and mood.

Multivitamins are a great way to support good health during the teenage years. A study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that teenagers who took multivitamins were healthier—in diet and lifestyle—than non-users. In a population of 2,500 U.S. high school seniors, vitamin takers ate better, were more physically active, less likely to be overweight, had lower rates of smoking, and watched less television than those who did not take vitamins.

A balanced diet is crucial for teenagers to stay healthy and develop normally both physically and mentally. Unfortunately, most teens don’t eat well—they skip meals, pig out on junk food, don’t eat the nutrients needed to support active/athletic lifestyles, and often experiment with vegetarian and other diets without knowledge of how to do it properly.

Study:

Teens that take multivitamins have healthier lifestyles!

Date:

December 6, 2006

Source:

Elsevier

Summary:

Teenagers who take a daily multivitamin supplement have a healthier diet and lifestyle than those who don't take vitamins, reports a study in the December Journal of the American Dietetic Association

As part of the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH), the researchers analyzed data on height, weight, diet, and health behaviors for more than 2,500 U.S. high school seniors. Their goal was to discover whether teens who took vitamin supplements differed in terms of diet, exercise, and other health habits. The lead author was Lindsay Reaves of University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Twenty-five percent of the teens reported taking a daily multivitamin supplement. Females were more likely to take vitamins than males, and whites more likely than minority members.

Vitamin use was related to some important differences in lifestyle behaviors, with vitamin users having healthier lifestyles. Adolescents who took vitamins had a lower rate of smoking, 29 vs 33 percent; and were less likely to be overweight, 31 vs 37 percent.

Teens who took vitamins were also more physically active, including higher rates of participation in team sports and other organized sports. Vitamin use was also linked to a lower rate of television watching—less than 60 percent of vitamin users watched an hour of TV per day, compared with 70 percent of nonusers. The differences remained significant after statistical adjustment for other factors.

Taking vitamins was also associated with a healthier diet, as reflected by an overall "food index score." Adolescents who took vitamins actually consumed more calories, but got more of their calories from carbohydrates and protein and less from fats. Vitamin users ate more fiber; had more daily servings of whole grains, fruits and juices, and vegetables; and ate more fish. Although teens who took vitamins, had more desserts, they ate fewer fried foods and drank fewer soft drinks.

The American Dietetic Association recommends a diet including a wide variety of foods as the best strategy for optimal health and lower risk of chronic disease. Like adults, many adolescents take regular vitamin and mineral supplements. The new study is one of the first to look at the relationship between vitamin supplement use among teens and diet and lifestyle factors such as physical activity and overweight.

"Adolescents who use multiple vitamin supplements have healthier dietary and lifestyle behaviors than non-users," the researchers write. They remind dietitians to ask teens about vitamin use—what types of supplements they take, how often, and why. Teens with a healthier diet are more likely to take vitamins and thus are probably at lower risk of having poor nutritional status.

However, "Supplements are not substitutes for healthy dietary patterns," the researchers conclude, unfortunately, this is a tough task to get our teens to eat well. Adolescents should be encouraged to adopt such healthy patterns, rather than rely on dietary supplementation for adequate nutrient intake, again, easier said than done!

LifeSource Vitamins Ultra Teen Multi Veg Tablets - provides older children, teens, and adults as well with a complete a multivitamin containing over 30 vitamins and minerals that are frequently inadequately supplied in their daily diet.

Fact: It is definitely not surprising that most (90% or more) of Americans do not meet their recommended daily intake of vitamins due to their diets, but here is the really surprising part, even the individuals who eat their suggested/recommended daily servings of fruits and vegetables still do not receive their proper daily intake of vitamins and minerals that are needed for our bodies to operate efficiently. How is this? Our modern processing, mass production and the way we cook or our food gets cooked for us have been found to be far less nutritious than in years past. To put this into perspective, it takes several more cups of fruits and vegetables today to equal one cup of that same fruit or veggie from just 50 years ago.

Fact: Why do we need Whole Food Based Multivitamins? There are numerous carefully controlled health and food studies have shown that by the time the food makes it to our tables we have lost sometimes as much as 50% of the nutrients of the particular foods we are eating. yes, 50%!


Do we really need to take vitamins? This is the single most asked question we get daily.

Answer: From Bruce Brightman, Founder of LifeSource Vitamins: The answer is YES! Without a doubt. Let me ask you a question. How is it that every form of cancer known worldwide is higher than ever in the United States, yet we have more prescription medications than ever, which are a whole other story? Our food is the main reason. Here are some serious reasons why. First off, our soils have been farmed so much the soil has lost the majority of the nutritional value that is needed for our vegetables to be beneficial for us. Lastly, they add pesticides and other chemicals, add all of this together, and then we really have problems. So the same tomato we are eating today is not nearly as nutritious as that same tomato from 10 years ago. Now we move on to our beef and pork. They are filling our livestock full of growth hormones to help them grow bigger, faster. Faster to market, so to speak. Then you add the feed that they are feeding our livestock is not nearly as nutritious due to our soils being depleted, so they are not as healthy. They are minimizing the growth time for these animals drastically, it is not healthy for them and it surely is not healthy for humans.

With our poultry, this is really scary; they have cut in half the growth time of these animals with chemicals. This is really a huge issue for the US. Another huge concern is their living conditions being so sub-standard. Not healthy for the poultry, and again, not healthy for us to consume. Lastly our fish. We can sum this up with one word; pollution. Our waters are terribly polluted. We have unbelievably high amounts of mercury, which are found in numerous fish that we eat every day. Our pollution governmental regulations in the US are getting better, but not practiced around the world. This is a worldwide problem, not just in the US. Now we see that we have fish farms, they seem to be great right, well maybe not. They have thousands of fish in small areas in numerous cases. Too many fish in a small confined area is not healthy. Also, with these farm-raised fish, they are not finding Omega 3's in these fish, which is perplexing. Again, this emphasizes the importance of an Omega 3 supplement.

All the above being said this is exactly why you need to consider certain supplements. The multivitamin would be the most important supplement. But not just any supplements. They cannot be synthetic, which is what you will find at mass retailers. When it costs more to produce a simple gumball than it does for your vitamin for the day from these mass retailers, then there may be a problem. How do they do this; inexpensive and non-effective ingredients. They also use heat processing, which heat kills most nutrients and makes them virtually ineffective. This is where the bad publicity comes from with regard to supplements and how they go right through you. Whole food multivitamins are the only way for them to reach your bloodstream, which is essentially is how they become effective.

By now you are probably wondering what is left to eat? Well, there are still some great choices out there. There are a plethora of organic stores out there that have great beef, poultry, pork, and fish. You pay a little more, but your health is certainly worth it.


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A Daily Multivitamin Supplement can Boost Brain Function, UK Researchers Say: by Owen Fertel

Did you know that a simple multivitamin supplement, taken daily, can boost your brain’s ability to function? That’s exactly what teams of British neuroscientists are saying in a new series of studies published in the British Journal of Nutrition, Psychopharmacology, and Human Psychopharmacology. Their main focus in these studies was to investigate what effects multivitamin supplements have on mood and brain function. Here’s what they found.

After monitoring the mood and brain function of several groups of healthy men, women, and children who had taken store-bought vitamin supplements for a 4-12 week period, the researchers found that the vitamin supplements boosted their brain functioning after just a few weeks of taking their vitamins. All groups – men, women, and children – had more mental energy, alertness, and accuracy in the challenges given to them. Taking large doses of B-complex vitamins increased these effects, particularly in men. Supplementing subjects with Omega 3s in 1-2g amounts, while not directly affecting their brain function, did increase cerebral blood flow while they were participating in cognitive tests. Professor David Kennedy of the Brain, Performance and Nutrition Research Center at Northumbria University and one of the co-authors of the study said that this suggests dietary DHA (an Omega 3 fat) influences brain function in physiological terms.* This fact has big implications for aging healthily, as well as for dementia.

These effects are the result of subjects having Optimal levels of the vitamins in their systems. Optimal, Dr. Kennedy goes on to say, is way above the level required to avoid deficiency and disease. Think of it in terms of grades – If you’ve gotten to required levels of a vitamin, you are getting C’s. You pass, but no one gives you an award. If you’ve reached optimal levels, then you are getting an A. To get you’re A’s, Dr. Kennedy recommends a multivitamin, as many people are deficient in several vitamin groups. A good multivitamin should cover your bases and patch up whatever you may be deficient in.

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