Saturday, March 31, 2012

What Do You Understand by Vitamin Supplements?

Dietary supplements are the organic substances that contain certain vitamins, minerals, herbs and other substances like amino acids, botanical that are essential to the body to improve your diet and they can come as pills, capsules, powders and liquids for proper functioning . Here organic means they are not come from natural resources and they are prepared with the use of related chemical compounds.

Both minerals and vitamins are necessary for the body to perform a multitude of functions, important for metabolic processes and to build the body structure.

However, vitamins and minerals are unevenly distributed among different food sources. A balanced diet supplies all required vitamins and minerals to a healthy individual.

Vitamins and minerals are micro nutrients that serve a specific purpose and benefit the body in a unique way. For example, vitamin A supports vision and bone growth, whereas vitamin E strengthens the immune system and helps repair DNA. Vitamin and mineral deficiency can impair the body’s ability to heal and protect itself against infections.

However, now a days people are not producing, handling, storing, processing foods due to which there is a lack of vitamins, minerals and enzymes in our diets that nature intended for us to retain. So in order to save yourself from deficiency of vitamins, take vitamin supplements. Before going to take a vitamin supplement, ask your physician about any dietary supplements you are taking, don't take a bigger dose than prescribed, avoid if you have symptoms of side effects and choose the correct supplement.

Last but not the least, don't take any nutritional supplements which give most times best but may have side effects. As you know that excess of taking any goo thing can result in side effects. So take fresh fruits and vegetables that will mostly resolve your health problems.

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