| Civilizations throughout the ages have known that | | | | supplements to help us get all the vitamins we need to |
| certain foods have qualities that can help to create | | | | survive in healthy, disease-free bodies. |
| health for people. And depriving people of certain | | | | The human body can exist for quite some time |
| foods would mean allowing them to succumb to | | | | without vitamins, but it does need all of them in order to |
| disease. For example, in the age of the sail, scurvy | | | | properly function free of disease. If you're concerned |
| was kept away with lemons and limes. | | | | that your diet is not helping you maintain an intake of all |
| It has only been in the past hundred years that people | | | | of these vitamins, you should consider finding a |
| have come to understand that food contains nutrients | | | | multi-vitamin supplement to help you. Taking a regular |
| and those nutrients are necessary for life. Some of | | | | dosage will help ensure that you are getting enough |
| those nutrients, but not all have been labeled as | | | | vitamins and your body will get rid of any of the |
| "vitamins." Part of the word, "vita" is the same root as | | | | vitamins you don't need any more of. |
| "vital" which means life. | | | | If you do have vitamins in your house, keep them |
| There are 13 vitamins, but there have not always been. | | | | stored in a cool, dry place and keep them away from |
| Vitamin A, C, D, E, and K plus the 8 B vitamins make | | | | children. Even though vitamins are necessary for life, |
| up the roster of vitamins today. Other nutrients, | | | | children need to be careful not to have too many; |
| formerly considered to be vitamins, have been | | | | especially vitamins that contain iron. |
| reclassified by scientists as they develop an | | | | Eating a balanced diet should be an important part of a |
| understanding of the things that make our body work. | | | | healthy lifestyle plan. If your life cannot always include a |
| While the best way to get these vitamins is through | | | | balanced diet, you may want to consider getting a |
| our diets, sometimes it is not always possible. Eating a | | | | vitamin supplement to make sure you are getting |
| balanced diet is difficult these days, because our lives | | | | everything your body needs. |
| are very busy. An alternative is to use vitamin | | | | |