vitamins minerals, nutritional supplements

In order to live a healthy lifestyle, it is imperative that you utilize vitamins minerals and nutritional supplements.  I did not start out by taking very good care of me.  How strange that we take such pains with our children to give them the proper vitamins minerals and feed them properly along with nutritional supplements; but, we do not afford that same care to ourselves. 

I believe it takes having someone you know becoming critically ill before you realize the importance of doing the right things with our own body care.  Even skin care products should be carefully selected to meet the needs of your own skin.  I remember when I went to the Dermatologist about some skin issues, and he told me I had "barnacles" on my body.  I told him barnacles were ugly things growing on shells in the ocean...and he laughed and said, "and they grow on people too..."  What a bummer.  Now I had to live with having "barnacles!"  Anyway, I used whatever medication he gave me, had some of the "barnacles" removed, and left feeling like an old sailor!
You know what...I think I might have cussed like one that day as well!