Your Health and Vitamins
Are vitamins really that important?
Absolutely. I’ll give you 13 good reasons why. As you get older, taking vitamins may help you from suffering from acute deficiency diseases and degenerative diseases such as Cancer, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
In order to maintain health, we need a variety of vitamins, minerals, bioflavonoids, and other nutrients. Although we receive many of these nutrients from our diets, it’s impractical and virtually impossible to get all that we need through our diets alone.
It just makes sense. Here’s why:
1. Our crops have many nutrient losses due to decades of overworked and depleted soils of minerals. You can no longer get “everything you need from food”.
2. Poor Digestion – People eat too much or too quickly and stress can cause indigestion. Indigestion reduces absorption of vitamins and minerals.
3. Over-cooking your food- If you over-cook your food, you can easily destroy valuable food nutrients. How do you really know if you have over-cooked your food? You have no idea how many vitamins and minerals are left after you cooked your food.
4. Microwave cooking-Studies suggest that cooking by microwave alters the nutritional structure of the food we eat.
5. Food Storage- The length of time we store and freeze our food depleted the nutritional value of most foods. Many people don’t know the proper steps to follow to preserve the nutritional value in our food after cooking.
6. Food Selection- If you eat a too limited range of different food groups, it will result in nutritional deficiencies.
7. Food Omission- Allergies to foods, crash dieting and poorly designed vegetarian diets omit significant dietary sources of nutrients.
8. Environmental factors- The herbicides and pesticides farmers use on crops leave them with low nutritional value.
9. Antibiotics- When you take antibiotics; it interferes with the intake of essential nutrients.
10. Poor lifestyle habits- If you smoke, drink alcohol, and caffeine, it can block the absorption of vitamins and minerals or accelerate the loss of nutrients.
11. Stress- Physical or emotional stress can increase the body’s requirement of vitamins and minerals.
12. Out of balance- The level of each vitamin and mineral in the body has an effect on others. So, if one is out of balance (missing), all are adversely affected. With antioxidants, one is not nearly as strong as several combined. Each vitamin and mineral greatly enhances the power of the others.
13. Nutrient variance- There is substantial differences between one fruit or vegetable and another. One tomato can have 10 times more nutritional value than another-which tomato did you eat?
As you can see, vitamins provide tremendous benefits to your health. EVERYONE should take QUALITY vitamins. However, not all vitamin supplements are created equal.
Christine Kulle-Merlesena
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