Dec 09 2008
Daily Multivitamins
I cannot stress how important it is that every human gets his or her daily allotment of vitamins. The Journal of the American Medical Association has published several articles on vitamin deficiency, and it is a clear fact that less than half of Americans are getting all the vitamins they need from their diet.
This is reason enough to add a multivitamin to your daily diet, but I have a few more convincing reasons that you might consider.
First of all, taking a multivitamin ensures that you’re getting a steady source of vitamins every day, so that you don’t have to rely on your diet to supply everything you need. Frankly, even those of us who eat healthy can’t be assured of a full vitamin load every single day. It’s also important to consider that many of the foods we eat daily–including fresh fruits and vegetables–are produced in such a way that many of the nutrient content is leeched away before they even hit the shelves.
Secondly, and more importantly, vitamins help us to maintain health by improving the efficiency of cellular processes that help us to keep up our energy, remove wastes, and fight disease.
Lastly, vitamins are relatively inexpensive. Getting a two or three month supply of vitamins, depending on brand, probably won’t set you back more than twenty dollars, and they often cost a lot less than that.
So why not add a multivitamin to your daily food intake? Your body will definitely thank you.
