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