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[S422]Should I Take Vitamins

by Jerry Leung, Jer

We know that vitamins are very important for our well beings. And we will need a balance of nutrients so that our body can function efficiently. However, a lot of people may fall in love with junk food and as a result they will be taking diet which is not really balanced. They may try to take some vitamins in this case.

However, you may also wonder if it is good for you to take vitamins. Yes whether you should take vitamins is the question here. It is very true that we may develop into some diseases such as chronic diseases if we keep eating fast food. And most people should be aware of it. And it seems that some nutrition supplement can be a good choice in order to keep our body healthy.

The fact here is that it is quite difficult for a person to get the nutrients he or she needs every day from food. I bet not many people can eat five vegetables and five fruits a day. Even drinking eight glasses of water a day can be something very difficult for people nowadays. At the end of the day it is very difficult for us to know if we are getting the nutrients we need from food. This is a problem even for the healthiest eaters.

Another thing that we should note is that different methods of cooking can destroy the minerals in the food in various degrees. Of course this is also true for vitamins. To this end taking a multivitamin supplement can be a good idea.

In fact, the best combination will be eating a balanced diet and taking a multivitamin at the same time. However, the multivitamin should be treated as a back up to the food we eat. We are still taking most of the nutrients we need from the food we eat.

Multivitamin comes with different forms. You can find tablets or pills. There are also some multivitamins which come with the form of liquid. As a matter of fact, liquid multivitamins can be something good since it is easier for our body to absorb them. Capsules can also be a good choice when the rate of absorption is concerned.

Some may say that multivitamins are something very expensive. However, if we can save some money on our alcohol and coffee, a multivitamin should not be something unaffordable. Our health is always the most important!

Since vitamins occur in all organic material, some containing more of one vitamin than another and in greater or lesser amounts, you could say that if you ate the “right” foods in a well-balanced diet, you would get alt the vitamins you need.

And you would probably be right. The problem is, very few of us are able to arrange this mythical diet. According to Dr. Darnel T. Quigley, author of The National Malnutrition, “Everyone who has in the past eaten processed sugar, white flour, or canned food has some deficiency disease, the extent of the disease depending on the percentage of such deficient food in the diet.”

Because most restaurants tend to reheat food or keep it warm
under heat lamps, if you frequently eat out you run the risk of vita-
min A, B1, and C deficiencies. (And if you're a woman between the
ages of 13 and 40, this sort of work-saving dining is likely to cost you
invaluable calcium and iron.)

Most of the foods we eat have been processed and depleted in nutrients.
Take breads and cereals, for example. Practically all of them you find in
today's supermarkets are high in nothing but carbohydrates.

“But they are enriched!” you say. It's written right on the label:

Enriched.

Enriched? Enrichment means replacing nutrients in foods that once
contained them but because of heat, storage, and so forth no longer do.
Foods, therefore, are “enriched” to the levels found in the natural product
before processing. Unfortunately, standards of enrichment leave much to
be desired nutritionally. For example, the standard of enrichment for white
flour is to replace the twenty-two natural nutrients that are removed with
three B vitamins, vitamin D, calcium, and iron salts. Now really, for the
staff of life, that seems a pretty flimsy stick.

I think you can see why my feeling about taking supplements is clear.

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