| Nutrition and Vitamins for Healthy Lifestyles | ||
| Vitamins are small nutrients that your body requires to stay healthy. Vitamins aid your body with its vital processes related to metabolism, cell renewal and cell repair. Vitamin deficiencies can cause life- | ||
| threatening health problems such as scurvy from Vitamin C deficiency. This type of vitamin deficiency is very rare in the United States, but research indicates that the typical American diet can be lacking in essential vitamins and minerals, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease or even cancer. | ||
| With the exception of Vitamins D, K and the B vitamin biotin, the body cannot manufacture its own vitamins but must obtain them from live food sources or from supplements. The body stores excess amounts of fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamins A, D, E and K in the liver, while excess | ||
| amounts of water-soluble vitamins such as C and B | ||
| complex vitamins are eliminated in the urine. The key to good health is good nutrition. No vitamin can substitute for a healthy diet. | ||
| However, since it is virtually impossible to determine whether your diet is perfectly balanced, a vitamin supplement is a good insurance policy. Your doctor can determine, based on your family history, lifestyle choices and overall fitness what the best supplements may be. There are also excellent websites to provide guidance such as www.drweil.com, in which the nutritionist Dr. Weill provides a “Vitamin Advisor” questionnaire which calculates, based upon your answers, the best nutritional supplements for you. |
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