Vitamins and Minerals

Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

Just because someone is very old or very young, doesn't mean the average human being can't take supplements. Supplements probably have one of the most misconceptions ever. That is because we are ignorant to them. No, this is not about steroids, deer antler spray, powders, or anything of that nature. This is about vitamins and minerals, the essential things you need to keep your body healthy. The problem with people (as said before) is that they don't have an understanding of a vitamin and mineral supplement. People run to Wal-Mart, Meijer, GNC, and pick up some pills and think if they take multiple pills they will be super healthy. Other's believe taking supplements is wrong and that they're just fake and placebos. Both sides are wrong, Supplements are an amazing way to keep us healthy but used in moderation.

Vitamins and minerals are needs in our body to keep us healthy. They are essential, they're what keep us from getting sick, getting a disease, and early death. In human beings there are 13 vitamins. The water soluble are eight of the B vitamins and the C vitamin. The fat soluble are the rest A, D, E and K. There are 21 minerals that are of a nutritional value for the body. Vitamins and minerals, help with our eyesight, hearing, growth, and everything that goes on inside the body. They also aid in the nutrition of our cells, and the way our body digest food. People don't understand that once you meet the requirement of all the vitamins and minerals you need in the day, you're not as hungry. That's because the cells have taken up all the nutrients they need and aren't in need of much food. The reason people get fat (other then laziness and the lack of exercise) is because they don't understand consumption and getting the right foods. A person can eat a big mac, large fry, salad, diet coke, and their body would not be satisfied. This is because the cells didn't get the nutrients they need. All the cells stored up was fat. Since the cells didn't get what they needed, you're sill hungry.

This is where supplements come in. Supplements are merely there just to fill in the gaps. Some people don't get all the nutritional value they need in a day so they rely on supplements to get the rest in. Food must be first. A person has to try to get all the nutritional value they can from food first, and if they can't, then take a supplement. A lot of the nutritious foods we eat have fiber which helps us digest the food we're eating, adding a vitamin to food helps because some vitamins (said earlier in the paper) are fat soluble. If you were taking a supplement with fat soluble vitamins on a empty stomach, in wouldn't digest that well. A fat soluble vitamins needs the fat in the food to help get into our bloodstream and into our cells. Supplements also can