To amplify or assist your efforts in providing the body with optimal nutrient intake, you may want to consider supplements of one kind or another. This is especially so where you feel that your diet is inadequate for any reason: hectic schedule; poor eating habits that are hard to break; insufficient variety in the diet. You may also want to consider supplements if you have special dietary needs, such as may occur for those involved in weight training, body building, or any other form of heavy exercise. If you are on a strict diet for the purposes of losing weight, you will almost certainly want to think about supplements.

Because so much of the North American diet consists of processed foods, so much of it provides limited nutrition. This situation makes supplements almost a necessity for some people if they are to get all the nutrients they need. For others, given the hectic pace of daily life - and its tendency to induce poor eating habits - many will at least want to consider a good multivitamin. This will be one that also includes the mother lode minerals. Depending on circumstance, others, still, will perhaps need additional antioxidants as well.

In summing up, then:

• take in only the number of calories you need to maintain your desired weight



• Strive for a balanced diet that includes a wide variety of foodstuffs - meats, whole grains products, and dairy.



• Most importantly, make sure you get plenty of fruits and vegetables.



• Just as important, if you are on HGH replacement therapy, by capsule secretagogues, or HGH injections, make certain you get sufficient protein for the body to use in building up that increased muscle mass.

In fact much of today's dietary literature promotes protein loading at supper with an evening fast, to encourage HGH release.