Diet is important and can never be disregarded in any assessment of your health but nutrition cannot stand alone. Sometimes some other factors may interact with the food you eat or even overwhelm the significance of food. For example, in families with elevated blood cholesterol levels, drugs must supplement diet. Actually, in this case, drugs are more important than diet in lowering the cholesterol level.

Why Water is important

At times too much of a good thing can cause injury. Drinking water is a very good thing but if you start taking too much of it and that also constantly, the salt content of blood may decline and you may feel weak. Chronic overdoses of water by mouth can injure kidney function, produce weakness and confusion and lead to what is known as “water intoxication.” And most important, older persons are more susceptible to this threat.

Vitamins and Body

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Taking vitamins is good for health but too much of them may harm your health. Nicotinic (also known as Niacin a member of the B-Complex vitamin family) has very good medical uses. Its large doses, perhaps as much as 2 to 6 gms. daily, are given to lower elevated cholesterol as it impairs the ability of the liver cells to make cholesterol. But too much of these doses can damag.e the liver and it should always be taken under clos~ medical supervision.