Walk into any pharmacy, browse the products on the shelves and you will be amazed at the range of products there are!
Row upon row of vitamin supplements, herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, remedies for colds and flu along with remedies for just about every skin condition are just a few of the Healthcare products that can be found.
Many of the products in the healthcare range are derived from natural products or can be the products themselves. A good example of this would be Honey.
Honey is a natural product, but depending on where the hive was placed, the honey can have particular qualities. Manuka Honey comes from New Zealand and is well renowned as having unique antibacterial qualities in the honey. Honey has been used for at least two thousand years to treat infected wounds. This is just one product.
About two hundred years ago, sailors discovered that if you eat fruit on a regular basis then you are unlikely to suffer from scurvy. It was only in the twentieth century that we realized that scurvy develops where there is a vitamin C deficiency. It is also a fact that our bodies cannot store vitamin C and we need it every day!
However, do we need all the healthcare products around? Well the answer is probably that the average person does not, but we will all need some of them! For example, some eye conditions are caused by a lack of vitamins, getting a daily dose of vitamin A can help them.
Did you know that the average person is six to seven inches taller than they would have been a hundred years ago! It is all because of the knowledge that we have gained in both nutrition and exercise. This is the knowledge that has gone into making healthcare products on the shelves, and in the pharmacy.
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