Monday, February 23, 2015

Vitamins and Minerals

When some people hear the word "vitamin" they associate it with older people. Some tend to think "Why should I take vitamins? I'm young and I don't need them yet." Correction: vitamins are for people of all shapes, sizes, ages, etc. Vitamins help to fill in nutritional areas that are not completely fulfilled by the foods you eat in a given day.

My family is big on taking vitamins and mineral supplements, so I was introduced to them (the gummy bear kind) at a young age. I love vitamins; I feel lost when I don't take mine daily. If taking multiple vitamins and mineral supplements isn't your "thing," at least take a one-a-day multivitamin. Multivitamins are a great addition to your daily intake. These vitamins contain a bit of all of the key nutrients that we are supposed to be loading our bodies with on a daily basis. So multivitamins are like the emperor of all vitamins because it's all of these key supplements wrapped into one master pill.

I always like to look for new vitamins and minerals that I can possibly incorporate into my daily dose. I also use a chart that will tell me what vitamins and minerals to take if I feel sick, etc. Here are a few charts that I have in my health folder on my cell phone. These charts are two that I found on deardoctor.com, but others can be found simply by searching "vitamin and mineral information charts" on Google.

Found on Google Images






Found on Google Images