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Do you always feel stiff in the joints and ache all over when you get up in the morning? Have muscle weakness and joint instability when you stand up after sitting for a long time? Have difficulty with stairs, but get better when you rest for a while, but after resting for a long time you feel stiff in the joints again… All symptoms means the health of your joints has raised red flags.

According to a research, the incidence of degenerative arthritis, for people in their 50s is 20% ~ 30%, for people in their 70s is 70%, and the rate in female patients is higher than male. “As long as you live long enough, you will have it.” For elders above 65, half of them are suffering degenerative arthritis, and usually it happens earlier on women. Especially easy to have degenerative arthritis on postmenopausal women, when they are in their 50s, but men are about 10 years later, when they are in their 60s.

Since the occurrence of arthritis can not be avoided, is there any way to alleviate symptoms? The answer is yes. The only way to cure cartilage damage is to increase the amount of glucosamine (GLS). Only glucosamine can help our body to cure the cartilages, and even can relieve the pain, so the articular cartilage can produces effect adequately. More importantly, using anarthritis painkiller can always lead to side effects like an upset stomach, but using glucosamine can never have it. Supplementary glucosamine can be done from various food or supplements, but natural sources from food is based on something like crab’s shell, it not very common so it’s not easy to get it from food.

A research from European medical authorities shows that, taking glucosamine is a great help to cure cartilage damage. Glucosamine is a substance, most often synthetic organic by amino acid and carbohydrate, and usually there are a lot in our bodies. In America and the euro area, glucosamine has become an important supplement for keep cartilage healthy. Taking glucosamine every day, doing proper exercise and control the weight can reduce the rate of having arthritis and relieve the pain.

As a main component in osseous tissue, GlS, in other words glucosamine can make the bones grow and prevent bone loss, increase bone density, relive the pain and let you have healthy bones.

你經常在早上起床覺得關節僵硬、酸痛？坐久一點站起來，感到關節無力、不靈活？上下樓梯感覺膝蓋無力，休息後就改善，但休息太久關節又開始僵硬…，這些警訊意味著，你的關節健康已亮紅燈。

根據統計，退化性關節炎的發生率，50歲以上爲20～30％、70歲以上爲70％，而且女性的發生率遠高于男性。“只要活的夠久，終究會等到它”，65歲以上老人大概一半以上有退化性關節炎的毛病，通常女性較男性發生的早，尤其停經後女性因荷爾蒙改變很容易發生，所以大約50歲開始出現，男性會比女性晚十年左右，好發于60歲以後。

既然關節炎的發生不可避免，那麽有什麽好的方法可以緩解症狀嗎？答案是肯定的。唯一解決軟骨退化及受損的方法就是增加體內葡萄糖胺的含量。因爲只有葡萄糖胺才能夠幫助身體活化及修補受損軟骨，甚至可以有效減輕疼痛，讓關節軟骨充分發揮功能，免受骨頭摩擦與破裂的痛楚。更重要的一點是，使用關節炎止痛藥常會出現腸胃不適等副作用，而葡萄糖胺則不會有這些副作用。要補充葡萄糖胺，可以從食物或營養補充品中獲得，但食物中的天然來源則以蟹殼類等爲主，一般並不多見，因此要自然攝取頗爲不易。

近年歐洲醫學界主導的研究發現，服用葡萄糖胺對軟骨組織修複有極大的幫助.葡萄糖胺是在人體內氨基酸和醣合成的有機物質，通常人體內儲量豐富.葡萄糖胺是軟骨中結構性蛋白質的最重要成份，是修補關節軟骨的必需物質。在歐美地區，人們已把葡萄糖胺列爲關節保健的重要食品，每日服用葡萄糖胺，加上適當的運動，控制體重，會減低關節炎的罹患率，舒緩關節炎的痛楚功效相當顯著。

GLS作為骨質組織中之最主要物質，也就是葡萄醣胺，能夠有效促進骨質成長，刺激體內結締組織的生長。防止骨質流失，增強骨質間密度，減輕關節炎疼 痛，預防中老年性骨折，還您骨質健康。

Lecithin is parallel with protein, vitamin and called “the third primary nutrient”. Lecithin is an indispensable nutrient element for our body. Therefore, getting adequate lecithin can not only protect the liver, help to recover from diabetes, clear the arteries, extract toxins, but also help prevent dementia and retain youthful vigor.

The effect of lecithin is more reflected in the brain. Lecithin is only 1% of our body weight, but 30% of our brain weight; 70%-80% our brain cells weight. Lecithin were found mostly in human brain and nervous system, bloodstream, immune systems and vital organs like heart, liver, lung, kidney etc. Because it’s huge percentage in our brain, we can easily imagine its significance in function. Lecithin can ensure brain cell membranes’ health, and guarantee brain cells’ health and development. Therefore, for the babies’ brain which are still undergoing several maturational processes, lecithin is one of the most important nutrient. Lecithin can provide enough nutrients to nerve cells, and accelerate the speed of information transmission between cranial nerves, thus keep your brain alive, sharp and be a fast learner.

Although tests show that livers can secrete little bit lecithin that we need, but after people turn 30, getting lecithin is basically rely on the food and supplements you eat. In this case, what type of food contain good amount of lecithin then? Although lots of food contains lecithin, soybeans and yolks are the best. The lecithin in yolks is the best, but the process is complex and the price is too much, so most of the lecithin in market is from soybeans. Because we can only get 2.3kg lecithin from 900kg soybeans and the amount of food we eat everyday is limited, getting lecithin from food only is not good enough but need supplements’ help.

The applicable people for taking lecithin includes people who has high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglycerides and cardiovascular disease, people who want to improve their memories and being protected against Alzheimer's disease, diabetics and women seeking beauty. Especially for pregnant woman, they should pay more attention to the lecithin level in their bodies. When a woman is creating a new life, she needs to produce numerous fresh cells in a short period of time. If she doesn’t have enough lecithin in her body, the lecithin in her amniotic fluid will not be enough either, which may stunt the baby’s growth or even lead to abnormal growth, birth defects, abortion and premature births. Human brain contains approximately 15billion cells, and about 70% of them had been formed when they are still in the maternal. Because lecithin can activate the brain cells, taking enough lecithin during pregnancy is a good way to have a health and smart baby. Therefore, American FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulates that lecithin must be added to baby formula.

被譽為與蛋白質、維生素並列的“第三營養素”，卵磷脂是人體不可或缺的營養元素之一。每日攝取足量的卵磷脂，不僅可以保護肝臟，幫助糖尿病的恢復，清潔血管，消除毒素，更能預防老年癡呆症的發生，保持青春活力。

卵磷脂的作用更多的體現在大腦當中。卵磷脂在人體中佔體重的1%左右，但在大腦中卻占到腦重量的30%；而在腦細胞中更占到其乾重的70%～80%。卵磷脂集中存在於腦及神經系統，血液循環系統，免疫系統及心、肝、肺、腎等重要器官。因其在大腦中的重要比例，我們也不難想像到其所起的重要作用.卵磷脂可以保障大腦細胞膜的健康，保護腦細胞健康發育。所以對於大腦正處於發育關鍵時期的胎兒，卵磷脂就是最為關鍵，最重要的營養素。卵磷脂能為拿大神經細胞提供充足的養料，使腦神經之間的信息傳遞速度加快，從而增加大腦的活力，讓人思維敏捷，學知識和接受新生事物的速度變快。

尽管实验证明，生命所需要的卵磷脂少量可以由肝脏分泌，但30岁以后，人体的卵磷脂基本上依赖从食物中摄取和补充。哪些食物中富含卵磷脂呢？雖然很多食物中都有卵磷脂，但營養及含量較完整的還是大豆和蛋黃。雞蛋中的卵磷脂儘管品質最優越，但因為提取工藝複雜且價格高，所以市場上的卵磷脂一般從大豆中提取。因為900公斤黃豆大約只能提取2.3公斤的顆粒卵磷脂，而一天中我們吃的食物有限，所以靠食物獲取卵磷脂是不夠的，還需配合營養產品補充。

至於適用人群，卵磷脂對“三高”和心腦血管疾病患者，欲提高記憶力和預防老年癡呆症者，糖尿病患者，愛美女士等都適用。特別是孕婦更應該注意補充體內的卵磷脂含量。當孕婦在孕育一個新生命時，在短時間內需要新生大量細胞，如果孕婦體內卵磷脂不足，母體內的羊水中卵磷脂含量就相對不足，這會阻礙胎兒細胞的發育，嚴重的可導致發育異常，先天畸形甚至流產和早產。人類腦細胞大約由150億個細胞組成，其中有70%的腦細胞在母體中就已經形成。因為卵磷脂有使腦細胞活化的功能，所以在懷孕期間充分攝取卵磷脂是擁有聰明健康寶寶的方法。因此美国食品与药物管理局（FDA）规定在婴儿奶粉中必须添加卵磷脂。

1996年9月在布鲁塞尔召开的第七届卵磷脂国际会议上医药学家和营养学专家们研讨证实卵磷脂(大豆磷脂)作为营养品在增进健康及预防疾病方面所起到的重要的作用。作為現在市場上的常見卵磷脂補充劑，卵磷脂膠囊能溶解膽固醇，促進細胞的復甦保持活躍，使腦機能活化，並預防老人痴呆症與維生素E 有相乘功效。卵磷脂含磷脂質與膽鹼，是大腦之主要成分，可增強記憶力，補腦及預防老年癡呆之外，對於血管表壁與體液均有潔淨之功效，可軟化血管，降低膽固 醇，預防自律神經失調，動脈硬化及血栓。促進脂肪代謝，降低血脂，預防心血管疾病。

For a lot of women, frequent UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) makes them fell under mounting pressure, giving them troubles in their daily lives. UTI is one of the most common infections and its most common pathogenic bacteria are e. coli. When the bacteria multiply rapidly, people will have bladder infections, or even worse, acute pyelonephritis. Because female urethra is shorter than male’s, female has higher prevalence of UTI infection than male.

It’s a statistical fact that 90 percent of the female experience at least once UTI in their lives. The urinary tract at ordinary times has little bit e. coli, and when it gets infected, the quantity of e. coli will increase. A new study which is published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” shows that the proportion of outpatient visits for UTI is more than 11 million times, and there are serious concerns about the UTI is resistant to antibiotics. Urinary problems have become a huge health risk for many people now.

In order to solve the trouble for most of people, scientist found that cranberry is an effective UTI and cystisis supplement. “New England Journal of Medicine” also noted that taking cranberry is effective for UTI. Cranberry can prevent E. coli adhere to urinary tract, so it likes an ice skate for germs, letting the germs coming out of your body by urination.

All in all, taking cranberry can produce great benefits for our urinary tract and other parts of the body. It’s a natural antibacterial treatment tool. Study shows that a person needs at least 200cc cranberry juice to prevent UTI, but the natural fresh cranberry juice is too sour, and the bottled cranberry juices always have too much sugar in it to make it tastes better, which is not good for health. Therefore, the best way to make cranberry to be effective is make it into a health product, easy to take and can also insure adequate intake.

對許多女性而言，反覆性的泌尿道感染帶來生活上許多的困擾及不便. 泌尿系統感染是大家常接觸到的感染疾病，其致病菌以大腸桿菌最常見。細菌大量繁殖後，造成常見的膀胱炎，嚴重造成急性腎盂腎炎。女性同胞因尿道長度比男性短，所以泌尿系統感染的發生率遠高於男性。

根據統計，有九成的女性終其一生，最少會發生一次尿路感染。平時泌尿道就存有少量的大腸桿菌，而泌尿道感染時，泌尿道中的大腸桿菌就會增加。而美國醫學會期刊的最新研究報告指出，美國每年的泌尿道感染門診病例次數高達1100萬次，泌尿道感染對第一線抗生素用藥產生抗藥性的趨勢也日益緊張。泌尿問題可以說已經成為許多人的一大健康隱患.

為了解決大部分人的這一困擾, 科學家發現蔓越莓是對付膀胱炎、尿道感染有效的輔助品。而《新英格蘭醫誌》也指出，蔓越莓可有效預防尿道炎。蔓越莓主要是因為能抑制大腸桿菌在泌尿道的黏附，而不是因為尿液酸化的原因，因此蔓越莓有如細菌的溜冰鞋，讓細菌隨著尿液，由尿道排出。

就現有的各項科學數據而言，蔓越莓對人體泌尿系統，和其他部位的健康，都有極佳的保健效果，是一項天然的抗菌治療工具。研究顯示，如果僅是把蔓越莓榨汁飲用，那麼一天至少要喝200cc以上才會有效果。新鮮無添加的蔓越莓汁味酸，不易入口，而飲料商為了讓果汁更好喝，通常會添加大量糖分對身體不易。其實最好的辦法是把蔓越莓製成保健品，易入口且可保證每天的攝入量，是防治泌尿感染的一大利器。

Eyes, usually been called the window of the soul, and one of the most important component of our body to make contact with the outside. Protecting our eyes has become a very important job for us. Today, the pace of life is increasing with the development of the civilization in our society, which leads to many eyes problems like overuse, eyes diseases etc.

Authoritative reports show that nearly half of the students are myopic. Such heavy workload makes children overuse their eyes, while always looking down on their books makes theirs eyes get too close to the book, which makes the ciliary muscle always in stress, then lead to dry eyes, and then become myopic. For the office works, they keep staring at computers all day long, and even when they get home they are still watching TV or playing with computers. After long periods of near work, their eyes are unable to refocus to see clearly in the distance, and even cause complications like retinal detachment, macular diseases, glaucoma etc. When they get old, it will be very easy for them to have blurred vision or even become blind. For the elders, as they grow older, their eyesight declines. With the senescence of eyes, people can have various eyes diseases like presbyopia, cataracts, glaucoma, floaters etc. Therefore, it become especially important for elders to pay attention to eye health.

Eyes are so important to us but easy to get diseases, so people start looking for ways to protect their eyes. Some people wear contact lenses for beauty, but contact lenses don’t work for small kids and the lens itself with harmful germs can hurt the eyes. The machines which declare that they can cure eyes on the market, not only can’t cure the eyes, but let eyes hurt more, which make the problem become more serious.

As a safe and effective way to protect our eyes, the anthocyanins in bilberry is one of the most powerfulforms of antioxidants, which can make the retina stable effectively and stop retina being sick because of diabetes. It can also help oxygen and blood to go to the capollaries around eyes, improve pseudomyopia, eye strain, allergic optic nerve, tired eyes, can't accustomed to the light and nightblind. Bilberry is also very effective to high myopia, amblyopia and lack of vision.

眼睛，通常被人們稱為心靈之窗，是身體與外界接觸的最重要器官之一。保護眼睛的健康，對我們來說是至關重要的工作。但隨著社會文明的發展，現代人的生活節奏越來越快，直接導致許多用眼過度、用眼不健康等各種問題，從而引發各種眼睛疾病。

據權威報導顯示，近半學生近視。繁重的學業多導致孩子們用眼過度，而經常性的低頭寫字，眼睛距離書本太近會使睫狀肌長時間處於緊張狀態，從而導致乾眼不適，直接引起近視。對於成年人來說，上班一直盯著電腦熒幕，就連下班回家不是看電視就是玩電腦，長時間用眼不僅會導致高度近視，而且更有視網膜剝離、黃斑部病變、青光眼等併發症風險，到老年更易導致視力模糊甚至引發失明危機。而對於老年人，視力是一定會隨著年齡增長而逐漸衰退的。隨著眼睛的老化，會引起老花眼、白內障、青光眼、飛蚊症等各種各樣的眼睛疾病，所以對老年人來說，眼睛的保健顯得尤為重要。

正因為眼睛是如此重要，但又是病變的高發區，人們開始尋找保護眼睛的方法。許多人追求愛美之心而佩戴隱形眼鏡，但隱形眼鏡不適用年齡小的孩子，且鏡片本身攜帶的細菌會給眼睛帶來傷害，多發細菌性眼病。而市面上很多治療眼睛的儀器不但治不好眼睛，還會讓眼睛受到另外傷害，讓問題變得更加嚴重。

作為一種安全有效的護眼方法，越橘富含花青素，是一種強力抗氧化物質，可有效穩定視網膜，抑制糖尿病所引起之視網膜病變。改善氧氣和血液輸送到眼部毛細血管之能力，降低假性近視、眼睛緊張、視神經過敏、眼睛疲勞、光線適應不良及日夜視覺模糊不明，對高度近視、弱視、視力衰退等問題特別有效。預防青光眼、白內障、夜盲、視網膜出血、視網膜障礙、急慢性視覺神經衰退、色素性視網膜炎、老人視神經退化、中心性、漿液性網脈絡膜炎、類眼及飛蚊症。