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Many people think that consuming well balanced diet gives all the vitamins and proteins required for a good health. In normal circumstances, yes this is the case, but in fact there are several reasons why you should have vitamin and nutritional supplements to cope with living today. Consuming vitamin supplements when necessary is a good technique of optimizing your dietary sources of nutrients, providing you follow proper instructions on the product labels.
Following are some of the circumstances when you may require supplements:
1. Poor Digestion
Even when you intake good food, incompetent digestion could restrict your body's uptake of vitamins. Some ordinary causes of incompetent digestion are not chewing healthy enough and eating very fast. Both of these result in larger than usual food element size, too large to permit full action of digestive enzymes. Many people with dentures are not capable to chew as powerfully as those with a full set of real teeth.
2. Alcohol
Consuming too much of alcohol can damage the liver and pancreas that are vital to digestion and metabolism. It could as well damage the lining of the intestinal area and could have other adverse affect the absorption of nutrients, cause to sub-clinical malnutrition. Alcohol affects accessibility, incorporation and metabolism of nutrients. Regular use of alcohol increases the body's requirements for the B-group vitamins, chiefly thiamine, niacin, pyridoxine, folic acid and vitamins B12, A and C plus the minerals zinc, magnesium and calcium.
3. Fat Diets
Bizarre diets that miss out on complete groups of foods could be gravely lacking in vitamins. Even the accepted low fat diets, if taken to a tremendous, could be lacking in vitamins A, D and E. Vegetarian diets that could keep out meat and other animal sources, have to be very dexterously planned to avoid vitamin B12 deficiency that may further lead to anemia.
4. Antibiotics
Some antibiotics even though expensive in fighting infection, as well kill off friendly bacteria in the gut that would usually be producing B-group vitamins to be engrossed through the intestinal walls. Such deficiencies could result in a variety of nervous conditions, so it might be sensible to use supplement with B-group vitamins when on a lengthy course of broad range antibiotics.
Now I know most readers are thinking how can not doing something like taking a vitamin supplement make your health situation worse? I eat a good diet, if I have not been taking vitamins supplements up until now and I've been doing OK, why do i you think I will be less healthy in the future?The simple answer is that the foods you eat are getting less and less nutritious. A study performed by the US department of agriculture, illustrated this perfectly.
In that study 100 grams of spinach from a specific farm was processed to determine the exact amount of iron it contained. The study showed that in 1940 100 g of spinach yielded 158 mg of Iron. In 1965 100 g of spinach yielded only 27 mg of Iron, and in 1995 100 g of spinach yielded just 2.2 mg of Iron.
This study clearly demonstrates the growing problem of mineral and vitamin depletion in the farming soil.
Farmers have tried different measures to combat this with little success. Air pollution, chemicals, pesticides, over utilization, Steroids and growth hormones have radically reduced the fundamental nutrition in our fruits and vegetables.
Here are a couple of alarming quotes from US Senate Document Number 264 "No man today can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his stomach with the mineral salts he requires for perfect health, because his stomach isn't big enough to hold them! And we are turning into big stomachs." "The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables and grains) now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals are starving us ... no matter how much of them we eat."
This is just one of the many reasons the modern diet is growing more and more deficient.
There are many other reasons that contribute to the problem.
With all of this in mind, vitamin supplementation is no longer a luxury we can continue to put off.
It is now essential to supplement your diet to achieve optimal health and vitality.