Happy Birthday Babyboomers The oldest of the baby boomers generation is now in their 60's and supplements are a big part of our life. According to the US Census Bureau, 7,918 people turned 60 years of age every day in 2006. That, they figure, is 330 every hour.

It is no secret that if you turn on the TV, radio, read the newspaper, log on to the internet, ect., that supplementation is an excepted even expected part of our everyday needs.

And the race is on! The race to maintain some resemblance of youth and vitality. Pharmaceutical companies were the original producers of supplements. Supplements, as we know them now, were primarily produced in the early 20th century by pharmaceutical companies by isolating the vitamins and naming them. The companies later went away from the bulk production of vitamins but the introduction of supplementation had made its beginning.

Modern day supplementation had made its start!

Today dietary supplementation is not just big business but truly a blessing to the health of millions. I will attempt to discuss their use primarily with the baby boomers in mind.

Dietary supplements are defined as products that contains vitamins, minerals, herbs and/or botanicals, and amino acids by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994.

The definition further states that:

• they are intended to supplement the diet
• they are intended to be taken by mouth as a pill, capsule, tablet, or liquid
• they are labeled on the front panel as being a dietary supplement

In addition to vitamins then, we will also include the minerals, herbs and amino acids in our quest for better baby boomer health.

A word of note is given that vitamins, minerals, herbs and amino acids in the form of supplements should never be used as a substitute for good nutrition, but rather as supplementation. Please see the nutrition page under Boomers Health to understand the complete nutritional relationship that our bodies need.

The last segment here is lifestyle. Our lifestyle is, very simply put, our style of living. It includes our choices that we make right now but sadly also included the choices we have made. Baby boomers awoke to the new era of fast food restaurants, do as you want and live free. Fast food has made sweeping changes, baby boomers are now not hardly able to do as we want but we still want a lifestyle as we want it. In many cases, our bodies have paid the price.

I am convinced that it is never to late to make those lifestyle changes. It is said that from the moment that a person quits smoking the lungs begin to clear up. The liver has a wonderful characteristic of healing itself so from the moment one quits alcohol in excess the liver begins to mend. It is never to late to start eating right, exercising and taking care of ourselves in the way that we should.

Matt Lauer of NBC's Today Show quips: "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are."

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