VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS
Is a Healthy Balanced Diet Sufficient? In the past, a healthy balanced diet was recommended to ingest sufficient quantities of micronutrients for the maintenance of good health.
People were often discouraged to make use of nutritional supplements by medical practitioners, as a healthy balanced
diet was regarded to supply sufficient nutrition.
Nutritional Deficiencies and Disease
A landmark article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in June 2002 changed this perception significantly. Researchers reviewed studies of the relationships between vitamin intake and various diseases published between 1966 and 2002.
They concluded that sub-optimal levels of vitamin intake are associated with increased risk of contracting a variety of chronic diseases, including cancer and heart disease. They also highlighted groups of people that are more susceptible to suffer from nutritional deficiencies.
Groups of people with increased requirements generally include:
- The elderly
- Pregnant and breastfeeding women
- Vegans
- People using chronic medication
- Athletes and active people
- People suffering from HIV / AIDS
- People with mal-absorption
- Alcohol-dependent individuals
Nutritional supplements should not be used as an excuse for eating an unhealthy or unbalanced diet, but to help optimise nutritional intake to maintain good health.
Nutritional supplements have become a vital part many people’s daily diet or health routine and is now part of the monthly shopping list of many consumers.
People use nutritional supplements for many different reasons, from ensuring optimal intake of essential nutrients, to using supplements to assist in the treatment or prevention of numerous health problems. Supplements should, as
the name indicates, supplement your dietary intake.
VITAL VITAMINS PRODUCT LIST
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