Take Charge of Your Health

Medical research has established an indisputable link between good nutrition and long-term health. Public health scientists have found new evidence of the threats that our toxic environment pose to our cellular health. The human body is made of cells, and those cells work together to sustain your life. The air we breathe, the water we drink, even the foods we eat contain substances that may be damaging to our cells. Any tissue that is exposed to the environment, including the skin and the linings of the respiratory and gastrointestinal passages are especially vulnerable.


The World Health Organization warns that cancer, heart disease and other chronic conditions, which already kill more than 24 million people a year, will impose increasing burdens of suffering and disability on hundreds of millions of others.

Laboratory experience and analysis indicate that certain types of healthy cells in culture may survive indefinitely when “nutriented” properly and protected from harmful toxins. Cellular damage is caused by oxidized lipids from fatty food.

Antioxidants provide a marked improvement in inhibiting cellular damage from oxidizable foods. Healthier eating habits are your first line of defense. Taking antioxidants with food may help reduce the formation of oxidized lipids.


To maintain good health, we need a diversity of vitamins, minerals, bioflavonoids, and other nutrients. Although we receive many of these nutrients from our diets, it's impractical and virtually impossible to obtain an optimal dose through diet alone. As I mentioned in my last blog, we would have to eat 72 cups of spinach to get the recomended daily intake of vitamin E.

Dr. Myron Wentz, PH.D. (immunologist and microbiologist), founder and chairman of USANA Health Sciences, hypothesizes that foods with high peroxide values, especially processed, fatty foods, generate free radicals that in turn damage healthy cells. Researchers believe that supplementary antioxidants are necessary for combating these free radicals in addition to the body’s normal defense systems.

To be effective, all nutrients must be of high quality and in a form the body can absorb and use. USANA guarantees the potency of every nutritional product and rigorously tests individual ingredients and formulas for disintegration to ensure products dissolve properly. Each production batch is verified to ensure that what you read on a product label is what you'll receive.


A third party study, The Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements, recently awarded USANA its highest distinction possible in all catgories. Only 4 other Nutritional companies, out of 1500, were rated as high as USANA.


We all have different nutritional needs and can benefit from a nutritional program that is both flexible and customized. Comprised of the Essentials and Optimizers, USANA Nutritionals provide the micronutrients your body needs for lifelong health.


The Essentials provide a broad spectrum of vital vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants - more than can easily be obtained from the average American diet. You'd have to eat about 22,000 calories worth of food to get the same nutrients found in a daily dose of the Essentials. Plus it would cost you more than $33 per day to fill your grocery cart with the items needed to obtain these nutrients. The Essentials, meanwhile, cost just $1.70 per day. That's a difference of more than $30 per day or $900 a month.

In a recent independent marketing analysis, USANA Health Sciences and its renowned Essentials went head-to-head with several major retail competitors comparing, among other things, cost of vitamins per month, potency of the products and customer service support. The results were-in a word-remarkable. The cost per month was an average of $20 higher with other competitors. The manufacturing processes were not known, quantity of supplements varied with each product, no retail products had the same amount of antioxidant blends and with most companies the consumer had to contact multiple companies for support or questions.


The USANA Essentials with patented Olivol, which include MEGA ANTIOXIDANT and CHELATED MINERAL, form the basis for the entire USANA nutritional system. Many dietary antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, bioflavonoids, carotenoids, and proanthocyanidins are present and numerous in many dietary sources. But unlike these readily available antioxidants, the phenolic antioxidants concentrated in Olivol are found only in the olive fruit. Because olives provide the only dietary sources of these powerful antioxidants, the benefits of olive fruit and olive oil consumption are extensive.

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I have been taking the Essentials and other Optimizers from USANA for the last few months and have already noticed a difference in my health. I have more energy and less aches and pains. With my body feeling better my mind seems sharper and I'm getting more sleep, which also helps with being more aware during the day. I firmly believe that when the body feels good the mind works better and therefore your spirit and soul can begin to work in conjunction with your mind and body.



I have been exploring everything I can spiritually and have found that it takes time and practice to quiet your mind enough to feel your higher self. With my body getting healthier every day, and not as many aches to interfere, it seems to be easier to sit quietly and listen. When I breathe and listen I feel my mind and body healing also. Everything is connected, body, mind & soul, along with the planet and everything, and everybody, on it! It starts with you and getting yourself healthy!


There is a huge movement going on around the world right now. Millions of people are starting to understand that we have to move into a higher consious state to bring about a world change for peace and happiness. As each one of us starts to improve our state of enlightenment and consiousness we put out an energy that encompasses those around us. This higher energy will then continue on to each individual until it passes around the world. Improving your health with your body is the start to changing the world. Again, IT STARTS WITH YOU!


There is a new movie being made called "The Shift" that documents the changes happening right now. Go to http://www.theshiftmovie.com/ and check it out.


Check back with me later and I will have more information on all of these changes going on in the world along with some of the Optimizers and other products I sell through USANA Health Science. We have a wonderful skin care line that I have seen remarkable results in only one week. I will also let you know about a way to loose 5lbs in 5 days!

Please go to my website at http://www.dianapeterson.usana.com/ and email or call me to discuss your health needs!


Wishing you much peace and happiness!