Essential Ingredients That All Multi Vitamin
Supplements Must Contain
Gregg Hall
When you are shopping for a good multi vitamin supplement the goal is
to find one that will provide your body with all the essential and
non-essential nutrients it needs. The big advantage is that you only
have to take one tablet or a just a few to get all the nutrients for
your body to function correctly. A good quality supplement can go a
long way to helping prevent both mineral and vitamin deficiencies.
Multi vitamins are used by a large number of people of all ages and
genders to increase the level of essential nutrients in their body and
reap the health benefits provided by these supplements.
In my opinion a good multi vitamin will contain at least 100% or more
of the daily amount of essential vitamins you need to keep yourself
healthy. Even though not all multi vitamins contain minerals, in many
that do, they even exceed the 100% of the daily amount recommended by
physicians.
Here are the minimum nutrients that a good quality multi vitamin
supplement should always include: Vitamin A, B-complex, including B1,
B2, B3, B4, B5, B6 and B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Vitamin D, and
Vitamin E.
In addition the best multi vitamin and multi mineral supplements should
have these minerals, Calcium, Copper, Chromium, Iodine, Magnesium,
Manganese, Molybdenum, and Zinc. For women I would recommend Iron as
well although most of us get enough in our diet. Phosphorous is also a
required mineral for our bodies, but we should get it from our diet
too.
There are many studies that say we need even more than the multi
vitamin and mineral supplements provide and therefore many companies
offer a multi vitamin supplement that contains large quantities of
Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, B complex, Vitamin K, Zinc, Magnesium,
Manganese, Molybdenum and Chromium, with Vitamin E and Calcium
supplements available separately. Even though this regimen requires you
to take several different tablets, it does ensure that you have the
daily amount of essential nutrients to keep yourself healthy.
The vast majority of the one-per-day multi vitamin supplements usually
contain B-complex vitamins and varying amounts of vitamin A and vitamin
D, depending on the kind of supplement you choose. Some one-a-day multi
vitamins have large amounts of vitamin A and D, while others do not.
Most multivitamins on the market only have small amounts of essential
minerals, such as zinc, iron and copper, since the body does not
require them in large quantities.
In our culture it is all but mandatory to take a good multi vitamin to
make sure we are getting the nutrients we need. Most of us are not
eating a balanced diet and without the vitamins we are setting
ourselves up for health issues.
Gregg Hall is an author living in Navarre Florida. Find more about this
and Vitamins and Minerals Online at
http://www.mineralsupplementplus.com
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