Multi Vitamin-Take It Or Bin It?

Written By Chouhab on vendredi 2 janvier 2009 | 04:18

By Haiyan Lai-Heskin

There's no question that many people don't get the nutrients that they need from the food that they eat everyday. Diets that are dependent on fast food or restaurant food at least two or three times per week make it hard for people to get the vitamins and minerals that they really need in order to be healthy.

In order to stay healthy and to get the vitamins and minerals that are missing from your daily diet, multi vitaminis is the ideal choice, but doctors and medical experts are holding on their opinions.

There are thousand of multi vitamins on the market today are made up of synthetic vitamins and minerals that were created in a lab specifically for use in a multi vitamin tablet. But are they going to be effective and help you get healthier? That is one of the biggest reasons that some doctors believe that taking multi vitamins is a waste of time.

These doctors argue that using synthetic vitamins and minerals doesn't help the body as much as the natural vitamins and minerals found in food would.

There has been no conclusive proof that synthetic multi vitamins can be harmful to your health, and some evidence that suggests that multi vitamin pills are somewhat effective at providing the body with the vitamins and minerals that it needs.

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.

The theory goes that because of the way that your body interacts with food it's much better and more effective 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 proponents of multi vitamin pills has their point that with soil depletion, pollution, and the use of pesticides and chemicals that the food people eat today isn't all that healthy and most of the vitamins and minerals have been depleted before a person even eats the food.

The jury is still out on whether or not multi vitamins are as effective as eating food to get vitamins and minerals but there is no question that in certain circumstances and for certain people that are too busy to eat a healthy diet, or people that can't eat certain foods because of allergies, or people that don't like to eat certain foods, or people that are dieting taking a multi vitamin everyday can be a good way for them to get the vitamins and minerals that they need in order to thrive and be strong and healthy.

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