Multi-Vitamin Supplements
April 21st, 2008 | 
Author: What Are Vitamin Supplements?
Vitamins are nutrients that are required in very small amounts for essential metabolic reactions in the body.Vitamins act as both catalysts, substrates, and nutrient carriers in chemical reactions.The importance of vitamins to the human body has been documented by leading medical experts thousands of times throughout the years. In clinical trials, scientists have seen that enzymatic reactions and neurological processing are affected negatively by a lack of vital nutrients.
Do We Need Vitamin Supplements?
YES! At the Earth Summit Statistics meeting in 1992, experts revealed information conclusively showing that farmlands in North America were 85% micronutrient depleted. A few years later, based on a combination of this information and clinical studies, leading medical researchers recommended that every American use a daily vitamin supplement to address the health dilemma of nutritionally poor diets.Some of the top vitamin supplements today include Swansons Vitamin Supplements, Shaklee Vitamin Supplements, and NOW Vitamin Supplements.
What to Look For In a Vitamin Supplement
- Ingredients for the vitamin supplements should be organic.
- Vitamins should be tested for toxic substances and contamination.
- No artificial ingredients should be used in manufacturing the vitamins.
- Look for hypoallergenic products if you have sensitivity problems. Avoid wheat, yeast and corn.
- Look for an expiration date and make sure the product is fresh. If there is no expiration date on the label, buy something else.
Most vitamin supplements contain at least the RDA for folic acid, niacin, pantothenic acid, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, chromium, copper, iodine, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc. Vitamin supplements that contain more than 100% of the daily value for these micronutrients are not necessary for most people.
- Vitamin A: No more than 2,500 IU of vitamin A or 5,000 IU, of which at least 50% comes from beta-carotene.
- Vitamin C: At least 100mg plus additional fruits and vegetables.
- Vitamin D: 200-400 IU for those over 65.
- Vitamin E: 30 IU is a generally accepted amount.
- Vitamin K: 70 mcg, green leafy vegetables should make up the rest.
- Biotin: 30 mcg
- Calcium: As much as possible, consuming additional calcium throughout the day to reach 1000-1200 mg.
- Iron: 18 mg for pre-menopausal women, otherwise Iron is unnecessary as a supplement.
- Magnesium: 100 mg eating green vegetables and whole grains should get you up to 310-420 mg.
- Selenium: 55-70 mcg
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Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?…
It is true, we need vitamins, but it is also true that you must be very careful in picking the correct company.
Not all supplement companies are created equal, follow the directions above and I don’t think you can go wrong.
Checkin out my current multivitamin, Rainbow Light Just Once Naturals.
Vitamin A, 5,000 UI
C 120 mg
D 800 IU
E 100 IU
K 100 mcg
Biotin 150 mcg
Calcium 50 mg
Not gonna list ‘em all, I think I’m good though?
Nice article.
Sometimes it can be annoying at the amount of bad supplements there are on the market today. I find taking the time to investigate how the company actually does business, can really help determine the quality of the products.
For example if a company spends most of their revenue on advertising versus research and development, you might not be getting a high quality product. Also, supplements that are sold through low cost stores are usually not good products. When they have to meet the low cost demands of the stores, the supplement company has to cut their own costs. This usually happens at the manufacturing level and that’s bad news for consumers.
I saw an interesting speech by the Director of dietetics for the US athletics team once and he said that it was almost impossible for ordinary people to achieve a diet that covered all vitamin & mineral needs. His answer was to supplement your diet with multi-vitamins.
Currently, world is a bad environment, so that people of different age groups with health problems. My opinion is that multivitamins are needed organism. The use of multivitamins to improve your state of health by 70%.
I think we already eat enough vitamin from daily meal, but it mightn’t contain all of them. I never use vitamin supplement, but my parent use it.
I am not to sure about Supplements.Are they recognizable by our body?
Very informative post. Vitamin supplements are really needed for everyone.