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Proper Muscle Function

There are two main sets of nutrients “electrolytes” in the body: calcium/magnesium and salt/potassium. They are basically minerals or electrolytes and are the main things the body uses for smooth muscle function. Shortages of any one will cause cramping. If you get a cramp, it is almost always one of the four that is short.

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What Are “Growing Pains”?

Many children, some from as young as three up to teens who are still growing and maturing, experience what is commonly called “growing pains”. Sometimes the pains are short-lived, and other times they may last from several weeks to several months.

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Growing Pains

Many children, some from as young as three up to teens who are still growing and maturing, experience “growing pains”. Sometimes the pains are short-lived, and other times they may last for several weeks to several months.

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What Have Sunburn, Canker Sores & Herpes Breakouts Got in Common?

The answer is a deficiency of tissue calcium. Here’s how it works.
There is some relatively unknown data about sunburn that I’d like to share with you in the hope that it will help if you or anyone you know who gets a tad too much of it – the sun, I mean.
The ultraviolet rays from the sun convert skin oil to vitamin D. Too much of it is referred to as hypervitaminosis D. What happens is that vitamin D’s opposing partner, vitamin F (another name for polyunsaturated fatty acids or essential fatty acids), is low in comparison to the amount of vitamin D.
Vitamin D’s job is to get calcium from your stomach and pull it into your blood stream and vitamin F’s job is to take it from your blood stream into your tissues. If you’re low on vitamin F, not only will the vitamin D pull calcium from your stomach, but it will also pull the calcium from your tissues back into your blood stream. It’s the F that gets it into and keeps it in the tissues!
So, should you get too much vitamin D and be deficient in F, your blood calcium level will increase while the tissue calcium levels will decrease. That is the reason that people who are in the sun a lot get thick skin. They don’t get enough vitamin F, which creates calcium deficiencies in their tissues. Hives – those big welts you get around the tender parts of your body from being in the sun too much – are a sign of tissue calcium deficiency.
Sunstroke is also a sign of low tissue calcium levels. Sunstroke is due to high blood calcium levels with low tissue calcium levels.
Excess vitamin D from extreme exposure to the sun is known to cause cancer. You may have read articles that recommend you stay out of the sun and that sunshine is hazardous to your health. Well, it’s only dangerous to people who are vitamin F deficient. Vitamin D is essential to good health and the sun is a great way to get it as long as you ensure you have enough vitamin F to balance it up.
Symptoms of low vitamin F levels include itching of the skin, the canker sores some people get inside their mouths or herpes breakouts in the genital area.
So, any time you have an itchy skin, get canker sores in your mouth or breakouts below the belt, hives or sunburn, you need vitamin F and calcium. Make sure your children have enough so they don’t suffer from their time in the sun.
Besides this, please ensure you get enough minerals, including salt and potassium to prevent dehydration and – I’m not talking about the junk stuff like what is purported to be electrolytes – as well as adequate water.

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Help Your Kids Strengthen Their Nerves and Immune Systems!

There are really only three reasons why kids act crazy. They’re either hungry and/or they’re tired or have deficiencies in the nutrients required by their bodies to function properly, which still comes back to hunger – or malnutrition – which really leaves us with two reasons.

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Kidz ‘n Instant CalMag-C

“My mom gives me Instant CalMag-C almost every day. She mixes it with juice and I love it.

It makes me feel better.

Sometimes when I’m upset, it’s because I didn’t eat very well that day; and probably had too much sugar, so my mom fixes me up a glass of Instant CalMag-C and it makes me feel a lot better fast.

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