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Does Your Body Need Vitamins?

Why bother taking vitamins at all? Our forefathers survived just
fine without multi vitamin packs, why can't we? The answer to
that question is easy, go look in your cupboards. Our
forefathers ate a lot better than we do. High processed,
homogenized, pasteurized, canned and prepackaged fast food means
less chance of natural occurring vitamins surviving for any
length of time.



While some of us pick our own fruit and grow our own vegetables,
most of the country chooses to rely on packaged, store bought
fruits and veggies. These aren't as healthy as they look,
either. The longer the apples and tomatoes are off the vine, the
faster they begin to lose their nutritional value, losing
vitamins during processing and shipping.



Your body needs vitamins to boost your immune system, ward off
colds and other viruses, and even keep you even tempered, so to
speak. Did you know with a vitamin deficiency that you are less
likely to clot when you cut yourself? Vitamins play a much
bigger part then we think, and the average diet does not include
all the vitamins necessary to keep the body in top shape.



A good multi-vitamin is your best choice, but here again you can
be misled into believing that 100% of the USDA recommended
dosage is good enough. They mean 100% total, not 100% of each
vitamin necessary. Think about it, they can't possibly pack the
right amount of every kind of vitamin that you need into one
pill a day, and most multi vitamins sold in your local grocery
store are cut with fillers and preservatives. Nope, you'll have
to visit your local food co op and get some natural, all
inclusive vitamin supplements. Along with eating well, these
supplements contain everything you need for balanced vitamin
intake, with none of the fillers and preservatives that I, for
one, resent paying for.



So let's talk B vitamins as an example. You need several
different kinds of B vitamins alone. B6 and B12 are just two,
but the most commonly talked about. Vitamin B6 promotes the
development of red blood cells, and 12 helps promote energy and
fights Alzheimer's disease. You need these and other vitamins to
be in the purest form possible in order to be the most
beneficial. Let's skip back for a moment, the history of
vitamins, if you will. Vitamins began being "discovered" by
scientists and surgeons around 1914, and the word "vitamin "
comes from the word "vital" as in vital energy for life, but as
far back as the 1600's sailors knew to eat citrus fruits to
prevent scurvy. It wasn't until later that they knew it as
vitamin C.



Now we will skip forward to the future. Many vitamins are now
available as liquids. Remember cod liver oil? Well now most
vitamins can be taken from a spoon rather than choked down
(although if you were one of the kids forced to down cod liver
oil, you were choking anyway), what's more, they taste good now
as well.



Now before you get all excited and run out to stock up on each
vitamin that you are deficient in, let me remind you that you
can, in fact, 'overdose' on vitamins, kind of. The water soluble
vitamins such as B's and C's will simply be expressed through
your urine if you've taken in more than your body needs, but fat
soluble vitamins such as D and E can accumulate and cause
problems such as diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and rash.



I recommend contacting a homeopath to test for vitamin
deficiencies before you run out and spend a lot on vitamins.
Knowing exactly what you need the most and in what daily dosage
will save you some money, because again, you really need to
purchase each vitamin separately, rather than in a multi-vitamin
pill.



DISCLAIMER: This information is not presented by a medical
practitioner and is for educational and informational purposes
only. The content is not intended to be a substitute for
professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always
seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health care
provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical
condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay
in seeking it because of something you have read. Since natural
and/or dietary supplements are not FDA approved they must be
accompanied by a two-part disclaimer on the product label: that
the statement has not been evaluated by FDA and that the product
is not intended to "diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any
disease."



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