Do you need a vitamin supplement

Believe it or not most of us actually need to have a vitamin supplement. I know what your probably thinking, but I had a doctor tell me we should be able to get all of our nutrition from our food. But, do you?

Do you eat a full, balanced diet every meal, every day or do you occasionally skip a meal, eat processed food, or eat out. If you answered yes to any of those, then you probably need Vitamin Supplement

You can actually get vitamins almost anyplace. Even at the local convenience store. We’re all aware of the big brands “Centrum” or “One-A-Day” for example, and yes many of these are very good supplements. Years ago I was told to determine if a vitamin is a good one or not, drop it in a glass of vinegar and if it dissolves within a half hour it’s a good Vitamin. The theory behind this experiment was that if the vitamin dissolved in the vinegar it would also dissolve in your stomach, and your body could absorb the nutrition. Even though this is partially true, we have learned so much since that time.

In reality, just because something is dissolved in our stomach, it doesn’t mean our body is able to use it. Our body actually needs nutrition in a form that can be easily absorbed into our blood stream. If it isn’t absorbed into the blood stream, then it won’t reach the rest of the body. It won’t reach the other organs that need the nutrients to function properly.

That’s where the introduction of phytonutrients and whole food concentrates began. Your body gets better nutrition from whole foods (so yes your doctor was right) the problem is, we simply can’t eat enough whole foods, with good nutrition in today’s society. We had also learned that men and women have different nutritional needs. And you now see supplements specially formulated for womenand others formulated for men. We even have kids vitamins in easy to chew forms, that actually taste much better than the horrible ones we had as kids. And the best part of all, vitamins and supplements have become much more affordable, as are now recognized by many health professionals as a part of an overall health program.