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