Cramps are often associated with activities such as swimming. Cold water, poor circulation and cold weather conditions can also be the cause. However, there are many other causes of cramps, some of them related directly to our diet.
In the past we thought that salt was the answer. Troops during the Second World War were given salt tablets to help prevent cramps and it is quite possible that their poor diets were lacking in sodium chloride.
There is plenty of salt in all of our foods. A slice of bread, a daub of butter and any processed food will usually give us our daily requirement of sodium which is 200mg but quite often magnesium and calcium are lacking. A recent dietary survey of adults carried out by the Commonwealth Government showed us that these nutrients are lacking in most of Australian’s diets.
Vitamin E can also help as it thins the blood and, along with helping improve circulation, increases the supply of oxygen to the muscles. A lack of magnesium will quite often bring about night cramps so taking a magnesium complex tablet could solve the problem and prevent those terrible knot-like cramps that can occur in your legs during the night.
magnesium phosphate 200 mg twice daily
calcium phosphate 200 mg twice daily
vitamin E 250 IU daily
Ginkgo 400 mg twice daily
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