Why take Vitamins?

Vitamin is micronutrient that has essence role to healthy life. Vitamin deficiency can cause unhealthy state and dangeorus. There is FDA’s Reference Daily Intakes recommendation, but the vitamin requirement may play a larger role in our dietary.

Researches show that take more vitamins than FDA’s Reference Daily Intakes recommendation, can reduce the risk of degenerative disorders and certain illnesses. Then it can improve the function of immune system, lets us get longer life and healtier.

Is your “Diet” adequate?

The word ‘diet’ usually is referred to food combinations that help you lose weight, but this actually is not the actual meaning of diet. Diet is what supplies the body with the antioxidant, vitamins, minerals and fiber it needs to sustain life.

Less amount of healthy nutrients, makes your body more vulnarable to illness and infection including Eyesight, memory, mood, energy level, lifespan and so on. So what foods become the best source of nutrients and how it functions to your body.

Supplement? What is it and should You be taking it?

Nutrition supplements are needed for 2 reasons at least.

* We often consume fast food and highly processed food.

* Normal diet alone can give us the maximum ammount of nutrition we need.

Supplement is nutrient that isn’t acquired thru normal eating habits including vitamins, minerals, herbs, amino acids, enzymes, and a host of other nutrients.

The rule is you know the nutrient ammount you get from the normal eating, whether it meets the RDI’s suggested requirements. If not, you should take a multi-vitamin every day.

The following are the values suggested by the FDA (“Daily Values” encourage healthy diets, by Paula Kurtzweil, member of the FDA’s public affairs staff)

• vitamin A 5,000 International Units (IU)

• vitamin C 60 milligrams (mg)

• thiamin 1. 5 mg

• riboflavin 1. 7 mg

• niacin 20 mg

• calcium 1. 0 gram (g)

• iron 18 mg

• vitamin D 400 IU

• vitamin E 30 IU

• vitamin B6 2. 0 mg

• folic acid 0. 4 mg

• vitamin B12 6 micrograms (mcg)

• phosphorus 1. 0 g

• iodine 150 mcg

• magnesium 400 mg

• zinc 15 mg

• copper 2 mg

• biotin 0. 3 mg

• pantothenic acid 10 mg

Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs)

(Based on National Academy of Sciences’ 1968 Recommended Dietary Allowances)