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Form a Healthy Habit with a Cooper Complete Multivitamin Daily

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Form a Healthy Habit with a Cooper Complete Multivitamin Daily

Each year forty-five percent of Americans make New Year’s Resolutions. At the top of the 2014 list of popular resolutions was losing weight and the 5th most popular was staying fit and healthy. It seems that New Year’s Resolutions are often about quitting something, such as smoking (#7 on the list) or eating less. We suggest that this year you focus on adding a new healthy habit, such as taking a daily vitamin. Taking the right supplement for you is step four of the Eight Steps to Get Cooperized. Most American diets do not meet the USDA recommendation of five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables each day. In fact, the average American eats only slightly more than three servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Factor in the amount of processed foods, some estimates are as high as 70 percent of our diet is from processed food and we fall short of obtaining the necessary nutrients from the food we consume.

While a comprehensive multivitamin cannot replace a good diet, a multivitamin such as Cooper Complete Original formulation or Cooper Complete Basic One can offer some assurance for people who do not adhere to a strictly balanced diet.

Here are some tips to help make taking your multivitamin a new habit that will last through 2015.

  1. Portion out your daily dose of vitamins and supplements one week at a time in a handy pill container and leave it in a prominent place as a visual reminder.
  2. Combine taking your vitamins with a daily task, such as brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. Taking your vitamins at the same time each day will help the action become a habit.
  3. Use technology to set up an electronic reminder (email or text alert) on your smartphone to remind you when it is time take your vitamin.
  4. Buy two bottles of multivitamins so you can take one to work and leave one at home. That way, if you forget to take your vitamins during your usual time they are always conveniently nearby for when you remember.
  5. Purchase Cooper Complete Healthy Body Packs (prepackaged individual servings of our one-a-day multivitamin and omega-3) to pack in your briefcase, purse or lunchbox for convenient portability.
  6. Set up a monthly auto subscription for vitamins. Keeping a steady supply of vitamins on hand ensures you will not run out and will be a gentle reminder to consistently take your supplements. You can set up an auto shipment online at coopercomplete.com, or call 888.393.2221 and we will be happy to assist you in establishing an auto shipment.

On average it takes 66 days before a new behavior becomes automatic. So start in January and by spring taking your vitamins will be a routine task in your day. Order Cooper Complete multivitamins online at coopercomplete.com.

Article provided by Cathy Sides, Director of Customer Relations, Cooper Concepts Inc.