| Most Americans' diets are lacking many of the | | | | Anti-oxidants are used to reduce the amount of |
| essential vitamins and minerals needed to live a | | | | free radicals in your blood. Free radicals are |
| healthy and happy life. One of the reasons for this | | | | thought to cause cell damage, and many different |
| is that many of the crops grown today are | | | | types of diseases including cancers. Amino acids |
| grown in soil that is lacking essential minerals | | | | are the building blocks of protein, and they are |
| needed by the plant. This causes the plants to be | | | | used to build new muscle as well as rebuild |
| nutritionally deficient, as well as lacking the ability | | | | damaged muscle. Amino acids can also help to |
| to fight off plant diseases and insect attacks. Also | | | | reduce the risk of heart disease. |
| many animals that are raised in America are | | | | Carbohydrates are the main fuel that the body |
| pumped full of steroids and other growth | | | | burns for energy. Many different diets claim that |
| hormones to help them to grow fast and large to | | | | cutting out carbohydrates will cause weight loss. |
| bring more money at market in a faster time | | | | The weight loss will happen, but cutting out |
| period. | | | | carbohydrates completely is very dangerous, |
| So now when we eat food of almost any kind | | | | because it can start to poison the body after a |
| we do not get much nutritional value from it. Also | | | | while. |
| many of the new medications we take do not fill | | | | Fats are often given a bad label, because the |
| the void of these missing vitamins and minerals. | | | | wrong type of fats can cause problems. However |
| Instead the medications we take, like diuretics can | | | | fats are a very essential part of the human body, |
| actually cause you to lose more vitamins and | | | | and are needed for survival. Minerals are used by |
| minerals. The best way to get the vitamins and | | | | the body to help in the use of vitamins. |
| minerals that your body needs is to take | | | | Without minerals many different chemical |
| nutritional supplements. There are many different | | | | reactions that are needed by our bodies would |
| types of nutritional supplements including | | | | not occur. These are just a few of the most |
| anti-oxidants, amino acids, carbohydrates, fats and | | | | important things needed by our bodies, and they |
| minerals. | | | | can all be found in nutritional supplements. |