The importance of vitamins & minerals

So, what do they do for the body? Well, vitamins are an essential component to the body, keeping it tuned and functioning correctly, like a finely tuned car engine. Take away the spark plugs of a car engine, or simply get them damp, and the car just will not start, no matter how much fuel you put into it. Get my drift? Now, a way to ensure that the body gets what it needs to live a healthy life is to take supplements. This doesn’t mean you can then live on convenience and unhealthy foods, it just means that you are making up for necessary losses in today’s foods. The best way is still to eat healthily, balanced and as best as you can afford. Another thing to remember is that vitamins must be taken with meals, so that the body naturally assimilates them, along with the goodness from the food just eaten. Another point to remember is that vitamins alone aren’t enough – vitamins need minerals to be functional to the body.

Now there are two types of vitamin supplements, natural and synthetic. It is obviously cheaper to use synthetic supplements – they are chemically the same, but then do you prefer cubic zirconium or diamonds? I know which I would prefer to have and it is the same with my vitamins. Cheaper supplements also have another difference – the minerals are not chelated. This means acceptable and digestible to the body rather then the body having to deal with the process of chelation itself. If your body is not 100%, it may not perform this task efficiently and therefore the supplement goes to waste. You may be saving money but then it is like buying something in a sale because it is cheap but that you will never use, therefore it is just a waste of money. Still with me? Now, when you take supplements, space them out through the day, but, if you are like me and tend to forget, take them all after your largest meal of the day. The best result for Vitamin B & C, as they are excreted from the body fairly quickly, is to take them three times a day if possible. If not, then after breakfast and after dinner.

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