Thursday, August 25, 2005

Vitamins Are A Gift To Our Body

Vitamins are the building blocks for the chemical reactions in the human body. They combine with amino acids and minerals to produce enzymes (which speed up internal chemical reactions) and hormones (chemical messengers which regulate organ functions and activities including heart rate, blood pressure and glucose levels).

Vitamins help promote normal growth, provide proper metabolism, ensure good health and protect against certain diseases. There are two groups of vitamins: fat soluble and water soluble. Fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, E and K can be stored in the body, mostly in fatty tissue and in the liver. Because they can be stored, it is possible that they can build to toxic levels if you consume too much.

It is essential that you receive a healthy supply of these vitamins every day. Except in cases of massive overdosing, water-soluble vitamins rarely reach toxic levels.

Water-soluble vitamins like C and B vitamins, on the other hand, do not stay in the body long. Since they dissolve in water, any traces of the vitamins that the body does not need will be carried away in waste.

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Your body can't produce vitamins on its own. You must get them from the foods you eat. Unfortunately, we rarely eat a wide enough variety of food to get healthy levels of all the necessary vitamins. It is best to get as many vitamins as possible from natural foods.However, taking vitamins in tablet format is often the fastest way to solve the lack of essential body nutrients.

In the past crops were grown in nutrient-rich soil, but as farming techniques become more focused towards increasing the harvest,the nutrient content of crops tend to take a dive. Nutrients are lost with storing, drying and freezing foods. Foods also lose more nutrients the longer they are kept.

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