| Health is wealth, an old saying but what do you | | | | very complicated, either the pill becomes too |
| do to follow this saying in your life? How about | | | | heavy or too large making the pill either hard to |
| taking vitamin supplements to stay fit? The | | | | digest or hard to swallow. Contrary to this liquid |
| American Medical Association recommends daily | | | | forms are easily swallowed and digested. |
| dose of multi-vitamins for better health. Perhaps | | | | Moreover they also prove beneficial to those who |
| you already know about it. But any idea how | | | | cannot swallow pills easily or find the taste |
| should they be consumed for better results? | | | | unpalatable. |
| Vitamins are available in the form of pills and liquid | | | | Resent researches have also proved that the |
| doses. It has now become an accepted rule that | | | | absorption rate for liquid vitamins is much more |
| liquid forms are better than tablets. It is because | | | | than the pills. Liquid vitamins can be homogenized |
| tablets contain binders, fillers and preservatives to | | | | instantly into the blood stream and their average |
| keep the multi-vitamins together and give them | | | | absorption rate is approximately 90 to 98%.The |
| shape and longer shelf life. Binders, fillers and | | | | absorption rate for liquid forms is around 98% as |
| preservatives are doubtlessly good for keeping | | | | compared to 10-20% for the pills. This is possible |
| the multi-vitamins intact and giving them longer | | | | because liquid vitamins circumvent the digestive |
| shelf life but they are certainly not good for | | | | process and get absorbed into the blood stream |
| digestion. | | | | and into the cell. This has a simple scientific reason. |
| There are several other disadvantages of taking | | | | Anything that we eat has to be simplified before |
| vitamins in pill form. Pills are made very compact | | | | any kind of absorption of the nutrients present in |
| in size by the manufacturing companies. | | | | it can occur. This limits the easy entry of the |
| Companies tend to pack together as many | | | | vitamins in pill form to our blood stream and into |
| vitamins as they can but at the same time they | | | | the cell. Whereas liquid vitamins are already in their |
| aspire to keep the pill size as small as possible. To | | | | simplified form so they easily enter into our blood |
| maintain a balance between these two conditions | | | | stream and into the cell. |
| is definitely a difficult task and so the result too is | | | | |