Vitamins and Your Diet

Vitamins and Your Body

Recently there was a study published on the benefits of taking a multi-vitamin.  The study had middle aged doctors take a daily multi-vitamin and they found that there was an 8% decrease in the amount of cancers that the the doctors had over the course of the study.  Seems pretty simple and common sense doesn't it, but this is actually pretty important.  Most previous studies tend to marginalize, if not demonize a lot of vitamins.  A couple of years ago I had a robust conversation with a medical doctor friend of mine here in Germantown who was trying to convince me that vitamins were a waste of money and no one needed to take them if they ate properly.  "Americans have the most expensive urine on the planet" from vitamins he argued.  This from a man who was 40 lbs. over weight and probably never had anything green on his plate.

The Most Important Thing to do is to Monitor and Control Your Personal Diet

Now I will admit that if everyone ate well, there may not be as much of a need for vitamins, but who lives in that perfect world.  First of all, the food we eat is not as full of nutrients as it once was, due to the mass production of food.  Secondly, who eats as well as they should.  Do you ever do the drive-through's, for a quick little bite?  Do ever eat something processed?  Do you spend the time and money to make sure everything you eat is fresh and organic?  Very few people have that sort of luxury.

Vitamins are Good for a Supplement 

In my opinion it is important to take vitamins for good health as they are a SUPPLEMENT to what you eat, not the only thing you digest.  By taking vitamins we are trying to lessen the expression of diseases that may be lurking in our genes, our DNA. This study showed this to be true.  Vitamins are a relatively inexpensive way to try to ensure better health, and isn't that something we would all like.

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