Vitamins & Supplements
What Are Vitamins?
Vitamins are essential nutrients, which the body needs to help ensure the proper function of the organs, muscles and tissues.
How Are Vitamins Derived?
As the body cannot produce these essential nutrients naturally, it must acquire these vitamins from other resources, such as foods, or natural or synthetic supplements.
People who eat a balanced meal comprising fruits, vegetables, fish, and poultry may not need to take vitamin supplements. However, it should be noted, that this is not a hard and fast rule. Fresh vegetables and fruits, when washed or cooked, not only remove the harmful insecticides but the vitamins and nutrients as well. This can greatly diminish the recommended nutrients the body requires on a daily basis.
Persons who are dieting, consuming a low calorie meal or skip meals altogether, should add a vitamin supplement to their regime to help replace the vital nutrients and minerals that the body is lacking during this time. The same would apply for women who, because of their body composition, are more prone to osteoporosis, and vegetarians.
Acquiring essential vitamins through foods, although nutritional, can at times prove difficult. Fresh fruits and vegetables are seasonal and can be very expensive for people on a budget, especially if organic fruits and vegetables are purchased.
Another alternative to ensuring the body receives its essential nutrients is through natural or synthetic vitamins.
What Are Supplements?
The body not only consumes food to obtain its essential nutrients, but can also acquire vitamins and minerals in the form of supplements. Supplements can be either natural or synthetic. Natural supplements are easily absorbed in the body than synthetic vitamins, which are man made and consist of some components that are not easily digested in the body.
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