Monday, December 29, 2008

Multi Vitamin-Take It Or Bin It?

By Haiyan Lai-Heskin

Some people don't eat as well as they should because they are pressed for time and it's faster to get restaurant food when they're out running around. Some people don't eat as well as they should because they don't really know how to eat in a more healthy way. Regardless of the reasons that people don't eat a balanced diet each day the end result that is people need to take vitamins and minerals in daily supplements to help balance out their poor diets.

So in theory multi vitamins are a great idea, but doctors and medical experts on split on whether or not multi vitamins really give people the nutrition that they lack.

Are those synthetic vitamins and minerals that were created in a lab specifically for use in a multi vitamin tablet on the market today going to be effective and help you get healthier? Lots of doctors and medical experts think that just totally a waste of time.

Does synthetic vitamins and minerals help the body as much as the natural vitamins and minerals found in food would? Those doctors are doubting it very much.

There is some evidence shows that synthetic multi vitamins you can take to help make up for the times when you can't eat a balanced meal will help you give your body all the tools that it needs to stay healthy.

But a scientist at Northwestern University says that even though multi vitamins might be somewhat effective at providing some nutrients a synthetically produced multi vitamin can't come close to the amount of vitamins and nutrients that are absorbed by the body through food.

It's far better and more effective that your body interacts with food to get vitamins and minerals from food than through a multi vitamin.

Multi vitamins are a good back up source of vitamins and minerals for people that don't always eat a balanced diet or don't always get the kind of nutrition that they should through food, most doctors would agree with that, but multi vitamins aren't going to completely replace the need for food.

The debate doesn't stop here, proponents of multi vitamin pills argues that the food people eat today isn't all that healthy because of the soil depletion, pollution, and the use of pesticides and chemicals which the most of the vitamins and minerals have been depleted.

It is a basic understanding of whether or not multi vitamins are as effective as eating food to get vitamins and minerals . Since it's just not possible to eat a balanced diet all the time, knowing which vitamins and supplements you can take to help make up for the times when you can't eat a balanced meal will help you give your body all the tools that it needs to stay healthy.

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