| When you are shopping for a good multi vitamin | | | | us get enough in our diet. Phosphorous is also a |
| supplement the goal is to find one that will provide | | | | required mineral for our bodies, but we should get |
| your body with all the essential and non-essential | | | | it from our diet too. |
| nutrients it needs. The big advantage is that you | | | | There are many studies that say we need even |
| only have to take one tablet or a just a few to | | | | more than the multi vitamin and mineral |
| get all the nutrients for your body to function | | | | supplements provide and therefore many |
| correctly. A good quality supplement can go a long | | | | companies offer a multi vitamin supplement that |
| way to helping prevent both mineral and vitamin | | | | contains large quantities of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, |
| deficiencies. Multi vitamins are used by a large | | | | Vitamin D, B complex, Vitamin K, Zinc, Magnesium, |
| number of people of all ages and genders to | | | | Manganese, Molybdenum and Chromium, with |
| increase the level of essential nutrients in their | | | | Vitamin E and Calcium supplements available |
| body and reap the health benefits provided by | | | | separately. Even though this regimen requires you |
| these supplements. | | | | to take several different tablets, it does ensure |
| In my opinion a good multi vitamin will contain at | | | | that you have the daily amount of essential |
| least 100% or more of the daily amount of | | | | nutrients to keep yourself healthy. |
| essential vitamins you need to keep yourself | | | | The vast majority of the one-per-day multi |
| healthy. Even though not all multi vitamins contain | | | | vitamin supplements usually contain B-complex |
| minerals, in many that do, they even exceed the | | | | vitamins and varying amounts of vitamin A and |
| 100% of the daily amount recommended by | | | | vitamin D, depending on the kind of supplement |
| physicians. | | | | you choose. Some one-a-day multi vitamins have |
| Here are the minimum nutrients that a good | | | | large amounts of vitamin A and D, while others |
| quality multi vitamin supplement should always | | | | do not. Most multivitamins on the market only |
| include: Vitamin A, B-complex, including B1, B2, B3, | | | | have small amounts of essential minerals, such as |
| B4, B5, B6 and B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Vitamin | | | | zinc, iron and copper, since the body does not |
| D, and Vitamin E. | | | | require them in large quantities. |
| In addition the best multi vitamin and multi mineral | | | | In our culture it is all but mandatory to take a |
| supplements should have these minerals, Calcium, | | | | good multi vitamin to make sure we are getting |
| Copper, Chromium, Iodine, Magnesium, | | | | the nutrients we need. Most of us are not eating |
| Manganese, Molybdenum, and Zinc. For women I | | | | a balanced diet and without the vitamins we are |
| would recommend Iron as well although most of | | | | setting ourselves up for health issues. |