Nutrition Vitamins From Food & Supplements

Many people, including myself, take a multivitamin or supplement of some sort in hopes of making ourselves healthier, fitter, stronger

A good diet provides us with essential nutrition vitamins.

people. But I also want to draw your attention to the importance of getting  nutrition vitamins directly from the foods you eat.You see, many people don’t realize that supplemental nutrition vitamins are just that-SUPPLEMENTS to your regular diet. If you are relying on nutrition vitamins for all your vitamin c for example, you need to fix your diet.You cannot and should not keep from eating breakfast for example, and justify it by saying you will take a vitamin instead. Eat your breakfast, then take your vitamin.

The purpose behind eating a well-balanced diet is to assure that a person is “fueling” their bodies with enough energy, or calories to survive, as well as with the essential vitamins and minerals necessary for several processes including metabolism, muscle contraction, protein synthesis and several others. The taste of food also plays a role in this in that it encourages people to want to eat. (This is why we need to retrain our bodies and taste buds to enjoy the taste of natural-not processed-foods). It’s really important that the bulk of these nutrition vitamins come from real food and not a pill. Why? Well, because vitamins have more “bioavailability” when they come from natural food instead of a pill or supplement. This means that the body is better able to absorb the vitamin in its natural state.

So, if we should get most of our nutrition vitamins from food, why take a supplement? Well, sometimes we just can’t get all the vitamins we need from food without overeating and consuming excess calories, for one. The second reason is lifestyle. Many of us are always on the go

Supplements can be useful in assuring we get an adequate amount of nutrition vitamins each day to be healthy.

and sometimes may not be able to ensure that we are getting all the vitamins we need. Another reason is age. Take for example, calcium… Calcium is a mineral that helps strengthen bones to prevent osteoporosis. As we age, our bones tend to become less dense and it is increasingly important to get sufficient amounts of calcium and vitamin D. A supplement helps us do just that.

There are also groups of people that nutritionists refer to as “special populations”- for example, pregnant or nursing women, athletes, and children…. These people need extra amounts of certain vitamins and minerals to meet the demands on their bodies to be healthy. Supplements do just that….Along with a balanced and well-devised diet, supplements can be extremely beneficial in helping keep our bodies functioning properly.

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