Vita Guard delivers a broad spectrum of whole-food antioxidants to help protect cells and tissues. It’s an investment worth making to maximise your child’s chances for optimal well-being, both now and in the future

Key Benefits

• Antioxidant protection, with whole-food carotenoids to support immunity.
• Equivalent to one large serving of fruits and vegetables.
• Great tasting chewable tablets derived from all-natural fruit essences.
• Contains no artificial flavours, colours, or preservatives.

Details

• Immune-powering nutrition from fruits and vegetable that may be missing in children’s diets*.
• Whole food carotenoids and flavonoids for broad spectrum protection*.
• Zinc and selenium maximise children’s defences, so they feel their absolute best*.
• Irresistible fruit flavoured chewable tablets.
• No artificial colours, flavours, sweeteners or preservatives.

Usage

Take 2 tablets daily with food as a nutritional supplement.

Vita Guard

Free radicals can harm cells, be they young or old. This damage may accumulate and manifest as threats to the body’s well-being later in life. The earlier a person begins consuming a diet rich in antioxidants from whole foods and whole-food supplements, the greater the protection from free-radical damage. Benefits may show up in childhood in the form of a stronger defence system, or they may manifest themselves during adulthood as slowed onset of the effects of ageing. Vita Guard delivers a broad spectrum of whole-food antioxidants to help protect cells and tissues. It’s an investment worth making to maximise your child’s chances for optimal well-being, both now and in the future.

Why Antioxidant Supplements For Children?

• To help provide antioxidant nutrients that protect cells.
• To help protect children’s delicate tissues and organs at a time when the rapid metabolic rate necessary to support tremendous growth and development is also generating free radicals.
• To help support immature immune systems, which in childhood are called upon to respond to some of their greatest challenges.
• To help protect cells from oxidative damage spurred by children’s high levels of physical activity.
• To help counter free radicals generated by sunlight, smog, ozone, pesticides, food additives, cigarette smoke, drugs and other substances to which children are routinely exposed.

Why NeoLife’s Vita Guard?

• Vita Guard provides the most complete antioxidant protection available to defend children’s cells. Vita Guard features both water- and lipid-soluble antioxidants for optimal cellular protection. Flavonoids and vitamin C protect the watery portions of cells while carotenoids and the entire vitamin E family protect their lipid regions. Zinc and selenium are key mineral components of the body’s natural antioxidant enzyme systems.
• Features the flavonoid family of water-soluble antioxidants. Vita Guard is the only children’s chewable tablet to deliver a broad spectrum of flavonoids from naturally occurring whole foods: cranberries, green tea, mixed berries, lemons and oranges.
• Features the carotenoid family of lipid-soluble antioxidants. Vita Guard is the only children’s chewable tablet to deliver broad-spectrum carotenoids from naturally occurring whole foods: carrots, apricots, peaches, strawberries and tomatoes.

Whole food antioxidant families.

- Vitamin A from beta carotene and other whole food carotenoids.

- Entire vitamin E family of mixed tocopherols and tocotrienols.

- Vitamin C, plus flavonoids to support optimal utilisation of the vitamin C.

• Contains selenium to work synergistically with vitamin E.
• Contains zinc, to help maintain immune function.
• Nature’s own sweeteners - fructose and fruit-juice concentrates (grape, orange, apple).
• No sucrose.
• Nature’s own fruit essence flavouring with no artificial colours or preservatives.
• Chewable! Your children can begin to receive antioxidant protection as soon as they are old enough to chew a tablet.
• Unique shape helps differentiate Vita Guard from adult products.
• Tastes great!

Childhood Can Be Hazardous To Your Health

Childhood can be a pretty scary time for both kids and parents. Children face obvious threats, such as a car speeding through an intersection that must be crossed. They also encounter mysterious hazards, such as electrical sockets, paint thinner and pesticides, and invisible villains that challenge their immune systems.

While parents try their best to protect their offspring, certain unalterable ‘facts of childhood’ create both hidden and obvious health hazards for children:

• Children are dynamos, burning enormous amounts of energy to fuel their sky-high metabolisms, maintain their tremendous growth and development and support physical activity levels that would exhaust most adults.

• Children’s poor diets are typically characterised by too much fat, too many highly processed foods, and not enough fruits and vegetables.

• Children are routinely exposed to environmental pollutants such as smog, ozone, cigarette smoke and pesticides.

• Children’s immature immune systems are constantly exposed to challenges in the course of their various activities and explorations.

All of these “facts of childhood” have one thing in common: They increase children’s needs for antioxidant protection. The reason is because these situations all generate destructive free radicals. Antioxidants help protect cells, as well as strengthen the body’s immune system so children are better able to meet the many challenges they face on a daily basis. Kilogram for kilogram, children’s requirements for certain antioxidant nutrients (for instance, vitamins C and E) are greater than those of adults.

What are free radicals and how do they harm cells? Free radicals can form as byproducts of oxidation, a normal chemical reaction in cells that provides energy for physical activity and other life functions. But oxidation can also cause destruction, examples of which can be seen in rusting iron or rancid butter. Free radicals can also be created by physical activity, sunlight, smog, ozone, pesticides, food additives, cigarette smoke, many drugs and other substances to which children are exposed as a matter of course. Just as termites jeopardise the structural integrity of a house, free radicals undermine the cellular architecture upon which good present and future well-being depends. The damage accumulates over time, eventually crippling cells’ abilities to perform their vital functions.

Nature’s Solution To Free-Radical Damage? Antioxidants!

Free-radical damage compromises the quality and well-being of cells in the short term, but eventually it may “snowball”, leading to age-related signs of decline. While manifestation of these signs have long been accepted as inevitable consequences of Father Time, it may be possible to forestall or prevent the cellular damage that precedes them.

Fortunately, Mother Nature has a solution to the free-radical problem. It has packaged antioxidant nutrients in the fruit and vegetables we eat to prevent their spoilage. But they also may forestall our “spoilage”. Antioxidant nutrients such as vitamin C and flavonoids, for instance, protect the watery regions of cells, whereas the vitamin E family and carotenoids defend their fatty regions, particularly the membranes through which cells absorb nutrients and excrete waste. Zinc and selenium are also crucial components of the body’s natural antioxidant enzyme systems. Nature was indeed wise to put these antioxidant nutrients together in the foods we eat, because research suggests that combinations of antioxidants are more effective than larger quantities of any single antioxidant.

How Do Antioxidants Provide Protection? As long as the body has abundant antioxidants, free radicals are held in check. But when the antioxidant defence team becomes overwhelmed, free radicals can initiate destructive reactions. For instance, a typical human cell undergoes 10,000 oxidative “hits” to its DNA every day! Antioxidants may boost the body’s immune system. In a study conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture, for instance, NeoLife’s Carotenoid Complex, many ingredients of which are found in Vita Guard, was shown to bring about a 37% upswing in the immune system of study participants. It is likely that the family of carotenoids in Vita Guard will strengthen children’s defences and help them meet the many challenges of childhood.

How Much Antioxidant Protection Is Optimal? Antioxidants destroy free radicals. In the process, however, the antioxidants themselves are either destroyed or re-activated, so they must constantly be replenished. How much antioxidant protection a person needs depends on metabolic rate, lifestyle, diet and general well-being. Since most children have high metabolisms, active lifestyles, poor diets and constant exposure to challenges, their antioxidant needs can be great.

We’re Not Taking Full Advantage Of Nature's Wonderful Gift

Virtually all of the world’s major health organisations recommend high-produce diets. 5-13 servings of fruit and vegetables are usually recommended each day for optimal well-being.

Vita Guard Fills The Antioxidant Gap And Protects Your Child’s Cells

You wouldn’t depend on buying a lottery ticket to pay for your child’s university education. Similarly, optimal well-being is a lifetime need too important to leave to chance. It requires planning. Just as you’d put money in an education fund to provide for your child’s future, so should you invest in his or her well-being. Oxidative damage can accumulate and cause challenges to well-being later in life. The earlier you provide your child with antioxidants, the greater the protective benefit. Benefits may show up in childhood in the form of a stronger immune system, or they may manifest themselves during adulthood as slowed onset of the effects of ageing.

Good whole foods and good whole-food supplements are an investment worth making to maximise your child’s chances for optimal well-being, both now and in the future.

Another NeoLife “First”

Great-tasting Vita Guard is an unmatched opportunity in children’s nutrition. It provides antioxidant nutrients typically deficient in children’s diets at a time when cellular protection is most crucial. Another NeoLife “first”, Vita Guard provides complete antioxidant protection for children from fruit and vegetable concentrates. Its exclusive blend of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients (plant nutrients) was specially formulated by our Scientific Advisory Board to maximise cellular protection. No other children’s product provides as broad a range of water and lipid-soluble antioxidants, and your child can begin to reap the rewards of antioxidant protection as soon as he or she is old enough to chew a tablet!

Based in Nature, Backed by Science

All NeoLife products are based in nature and backed by science. Following Nature’s blueprints, our Scientific Advisory Board uses cutting-edge research to design truly innovative, high-quality products. Our goal is to bring you vital nutrients in as natural a context as possible. Vita Guard meets that goal because it features:

• Broad-spectrum carotenoids, not just beta-carotene. Beta-carotene does not exist in isolation in nature - it’s part of a huge family with approximately 600 members! But many supplements supply it alone rather than with the other vital members of the carotenoid family. Not Vita Guard! Vita Guard is the only children’s chewable to deliver beta-carotene with the other carotenoid family members that exist in foods, such as alpha-carotene, gamma-carotene, zeta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, zeaxanthin and beta-cryptoxanthin. It’s an excellent source of vitamin A from the human food chain and it offers broader protection of cell membranes.

• The entire vitamin E family, not just alpha-tocopherol. Similarly, Vita Guard contains the entire vitamin E family of tocopherols and tocotrienols as they exist in natural foods, not just the most common member in isolation (alpha-tocopherol). The benefit is more complete protection for cell membranes.

• Broad-spectrum flavonoids. Vita Guard features a broad spectrum of flavonoids, not just the one or two found in other supplements. The result is better protection for the water-soluble portions of cells.

• Whole-food ingredients. You won’t find ingredients as wholesome as those in Vita Guard in any other children’s supplement. Made from whole foods, flavoured with naturally occurring fruit essences and sweetened with fructose and fruit juices, Vita Guard contains ingredients you can feel good about! And it doesn’t contain ingredients that cause concern - sugar and artificial colours, sweeteners and flavours.

Health Disclaimer :

* This unregistered medicine has not been evaluated by the SAHPRA for its quality, safety or intended use.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.