| It is possible to boost health and | | | | as vitamin C that are not stored in the |
| wellness with vitamin supplements if you | | | | body. Vitamin supplements are a good way |
| keep an eye on your recommended daily | | | | of maintaining a balanced daily vitamin |
| allowance (RDA). It is possible to | | | | intake. They affect every part of your |
| overdose on some vitamins, especially | | | | body from healthy toenails to healthy |
| vitamin A if you are pregnant, but | | | | hair on your head. They also affect your |
| generally a once daily vitamin | | | | digestion, your blood and circulation |
| supplement does you a lot of good. | | | | system, the way your brain works, the |
| Many people suffer from one type of | | | | development and maintenance of healthy |
| vitamin deficiency or another and that | | | | bones, skin and muscle. In short, they |
| deficiency is determined by many | | | | are essential to just about every part |
| different circumstances. It could be | | | | and function of your body. Without them |
| because you are on a diet that restricts | | | | you would not exist. |
| your food choice so that your intake of | | | | People can generally boost their health |
| nutrients is not what it should be. The | | | | with vitamin supplements, and even those |
| human digestive system has been designed | | | | that generally feel fit would likely |
| for an omnivorous diet, so those that | | | | benefit from a regular course of |
| eat meat and neglect their fruit and | | | | vitamins and minerals during the winter |
| vegetable intake will ten to be | | | | months. People are no longer subject to |
| deficient in some of the fat soluble | | | | the forced seasonal depletion of certain |
| vitamins. | | | | vitamins and minerals due to the |
| Vegans will be deficient in those | | | | non-availability of certain fruits and |
| vitamins that are unobtainable from | | | | vegetables in winter time, but a |
| vegetables. A prime example is vitamin | | | | supplement will help them to survive the |
| B12. However, there is nothing wrong | | | | winter with fewer colds and other viral |
| with opting for one dietary regime or | | | | and bacterial infections. |
| another if you are aware of the | | | | There are some supplements, however, |
| potential deficiencies, and make up for | | | | that should be taken with care under |
| them with supplements. | | | | certain circumstances. Pregnant women in |
| Vitamin D deficiencies are particularly | | | | particular, while taking a good supply |
| common, especially amongst those that | | | | of folic acid, should avoid a vitamin A |
| get little exposure to sunlight. Vitamin | | | | supplement that could harm the growing |
| D is formed in the skin by the action of | | | | fetus. The same is true of liver that is |
| sunlight, and people who live in the | | | | very rich in vitamin A. Anybody |
| higher latitudes in particular tend to | | | | suffering from a specific medical |
| suffer from deficiencies: much more so | | | | condition should seek their physician's |
| than residents of Florida or California! | | | | advice if taking or intending to take a |
| However, it is not just in vitamin D | | | | supplement that involves them exceeding |
| that many people are deficient. | | | | the RDA for any vitamin or mineral. |
| Vitamins are essential to your body for | | | | The body of evidence indicates that |
| proper health and fitness. Vitamins are | | | | those eating a properly balanced diet |
| chemicals that have been identified as | | | | with plenty fruit, vegetables and |
| being essential to human life, and | | | | protein from both animal and vegetable |
| without them you cannot survive. You can | | | | sources, should not need any |
| live with certain deficiencies, although | | | | supplements. A balanced diet will |
| much depends on the vitamin. Many are | | | | provide you with all the vitamins you |
| antioxidants, without which you will age | | | | need, but most people do not eat a |
| quicker and suffer from many unpleasant | | | | balanced diet, not only Americans but |
| conditions. Antioxidants neutralize free | | | | generally throughout the world. |
| radicals that are generated by both the | | | | The American diet tends to be rich in |
| body's metabolism and environmental | | | | fats and low in fruit and vegetables, |
| agents. Pollution such as smoking, | | | | and it is certainly true that this type |
| traffic fumes and pesticides can | | | | of diet is one that is usually used as |
| generate free radicals, as can sunlight | | | | an example when vitamin and mineral |
| which is generally associated with good | | | | deficiencies are discussed. However, it |
| health; and Vitamin D of course. | | | | is not only in America, since many other |
| Free radicals are compounds that possess | | | | cultures are taking up the fast food |
| unpaired electrons. Electrons normally | | | | solution to working parents that have |
| travel in pairs, but occasionally a | | | | little or no time to cook for their |
| compound can lose one of its electrons | | | | families. The result is a salt and sugar |
| and is rendered unstable. It immediately | | | | rich diet that is lacking in amino |
| begins to look for a new mate, and a | | | | acids, antioxidants and the vitamins |
| favorite source is from the cells of our | | | | that are needed for general good health. |
| bodies. In stealing electrons from body | | | | Apart from those diets made by choice, |
| cells, free radicals destroy the cells | | | | even if for understandable reasons, many |
| and accelerate aging. They also oxidize | | | | people cannot eat a balanced diet, and |
| the low density lipoproteins that taxi | | | | others are on diets for weight loss that |
| cholesterol around the blood, and cause | | | | are restrictive in the range of foods |
| it to deposit its cholesterol in our | | | | that they eat. Women and children |
| arteries creating a condition known as | | | | dressed from head to toe in black robes |
| atherosclerosis. | | | | for religious reasons are prone to |
| This is a narrowing of the arteries | | | | vitamin D deficiencies, their children |
| through the arterial walls being | | | | being especially prone to rickets. All |
| thickened by the cholesterol, and in | | | | of these require vitamin supplements of |
| severe cases they can even become | | | | one type or another. Supplementation can |
| completely blocked. This is a very | | | | be taken as individual vitamins or as a |
| serious condition that near the heart | | | | mixture of various vitamins and |
| can cause cardiac failure, and in the | | | | minerals. |
| brain can cause a stroke. The | | | | Whether you belong to one of these |
| antioxidant vitamins A, C and E, | | | | groups or not is immaterial: you can |
| therefore, are very important to us for | | | | boost your health and wellness with |
| this single property, let alone all the | | | | vitamin supplements if you take them |
| others that they possess that are also | | | | regularly, and combine your vitamin |
| beneficial to our health. | | | | intake with the right amount of exercise |
| It is important that your body is well | | | | for your age. All physicians are agreed |
| supplied with all the vitamins it needs, | | | | that good health is a combination of |
| especially the water soluble ones such | | | | nutrition and exercise. |