Multivitamins and You!
Posted on August 22, 2008 By Joe Fier
Follow the food pyramid and eat your vitamins!
This might sound familiar from the days when your parents would pack your lunch and cook you dinner. Luckily, your parents were right, but there is another essential elements to goes into this equation for a healthy diet. Enter, multivitamins!
Many of us do not realize it through our everyday diets, but the typical person does not eat nearly enough vitamins, through ways of food, each and every day. To fill the deficit of vitamins for the day, multivitamins can be used. Because it is so difficult for the typical eater to fill themselves with enough vitamins, the use of multivitamins can be very beneficial. As these supplements are very good tools to fill the deficits, they should not be used as the only means for vitamin consumption. It is essential to consume as many vitamins as we can from foods because they are the only source we can receive fiber, phytonutrients, and other beneficial compounds.
For example, according to the Dietary Guidelines of Americans 2005, it shows that many adults are deficient in a variety of vital elements:
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin C (Carotenoids)
- Vitamin E
- Magnesium
- Calcium
Since many of us have a difficult time keeping track of what we’re eating, or don’t even know what to eat, below are some quick tips to follow that will sure be able to assist you when paired up with a multivitamin.
- Eat foods rich in whole grains
- Keep a balanced diet of fruits and veggies (I know it’s been said many times before)
- Stick more to eating lean meats, such as chicken and fish
- Begin looking on the back of a lot of food products… following the Nutritional Facts can help limit a lot in your diet. If it doesn’t immediately limit your diet, like me, it will definitely make you feel pretty guilty for eating so much!!
- Track your caloric intake by using a program, such as CalorieKing.
As multivitamins sound like a great idea to “get on track” and balanced with our nutritional elements, they are not always the all-in-one solution… of course! For instance, multivitamins are not a great idea for those recovering from or have cancer, along with other diseases. Sometimes the various elements of the multivitamins aid a particular disease. Always check with a doctor anytime before choosing vitamins if you are one in this circumstance.
Now that I’ve gone this far with briefly explaining some of the basics on multivitamins, I realized that I originally wanted to write about the type I take. I guess a post in the near future will do for that one!
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