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| The best sources of vitamins are foods. | | | | Reasons for Supplements Consumption |
| However, there are reasons to use vitamin | | | | The overriding reason for needing vitamin |
| supplements because we may not be able to get | | | | supplements rests in deficiencies of our diets. You |
| all the vitamins and minerals necessary to ensure | | | | will be able to secure all the necessary nutrients |
| our good health from our diet. | | | | lacking in your diet through the right vitamin |
| There are many reasons for this deficiency that | | | | supplements, which means that you can be |
| include the following: | | | | healthier, too. After all, vitamin supplements are |
| - Busy lifestyles often mean missing out on | | | | exactly that - supplements to your diet! |
| healthful meals and snacks. Instead, | | | | Yet another benefit of vitamin supplements is |
| less-than-wholesome foods are consumed while | | | | that these materials target certain nutritional |
| on the go, foods including sugar-laden, starch-rich | | | | demands that your body has at different stages |
| and salt-infused doughnuts and sweet pastries, | | | | of your life. For example, as a child, you were in |
| coffee and soda, chips and other junk foods. | | | | need of growth-enhancing vitamins that you may |
| - Methods used in food production are not | | | | not have been able to secure from your diet. |
| conducive to the retention of nutrients in fruits | | | | Thus, your parents may have provided a vitamin |
| and vegetables. For example, washing and | | | | supplement containing all the nutrients your |
| freezing the foods while being processed makes | | | | growing body needed. |
| these foods lose their nutrients so that by the | | | | Or during the time when you were pregnant, |
| time they get to the table, more than half may | | | | your doctor might have prescribed folic acid and |
| have been lost. | | | | iron supplements as well as other multivitamin |
| - Techniques for cooking the foods also make | | | | supplements to answer the increased demands |
| them lose their nutrients. Although there are | | | | for these nutrients. |
| foods that increase their nutritional value when | | | | You might also need vitamin supplements to help |
| cooked, most foods which are more nutritious | | | | you recover faster from illness, trauma or |
| when eaten raw are, nonetheless, cooked. In part, | | | | surgery. For example, people with tuberculosis are |
| this may be attributed to the use of commercial | | | | prescribed B vitamins to strengthen their immune |
| pesticides and fertilizers that may only be | | | | systems as well as their lungs. Or people |
| removed from food through cooking. | | | | recovering from surgery are advised to take |
| Whatever the reason for diet deficiencies, you | | | | vitamin C and zinc for faster healing of wounds. |
| cannot hide from the fact that you are definitely | | | | There are many benefits to taking vitamin |
| losing out on significant quantities and qualities of | | | | supplements to bridge the gap between what the |
| nutrients. And eventually your body will pay the | | | | body needs and what it gets from food sources. |