So Which Leading Vitamins And Minerals Do I need and Why ?

While it's true that vitamin supplements can promote good health, but this is through taking them carefully and as directed rather than assuming that the more you take the better.

But it is true that vitamin nutritional supplements are among the most important things you can do for the overall health of your mind and body.

Whether you eat a healthy diet or supplement your diet with nutritional supplements such as vitamins and minerals, you might not be receiving the nutrients you think you are getting.

Digestion is not designed for the break down of vitamins and minerals but simply a method the body uses to transform nutrients into usable substances.

Most of the vitamins humans need is synthesized by plants, so you get plenty when you eat a variety of fruit, vegetables, whole grains, beans and seeds.

There are a lot of farmers starting to produce organic food in current years but it will still take a generation to be able to get any minerals and vitamins back into the soil.

Of course it is a good idea to take a vitamin and mineral supplement, but as it always was, it is still suggested that you get more of your vitamins and minerals from whole food sources.

Now I could go into the real nuts and bolts of how and why we are living too short and dying too long in todays toxic society but that will have to be another column.

And as its always prudent to only take advice from world reknowned experts in any field, the supplement field is no different to any other.

By the way the dosages to help prevent chronic degenerative disease not just the RDA allowances which are so grossly outdated and were devised back in the 1950's to provide a guideline for things like scurvy and rickets.

I used to think that most nutritional products were of good quality until I read this book.Without going into too much detail (you'll need to get a copy to read yourself) most products scored less than 50% .

If you are as health concious as I am, finding and using only the best products available makes sense and has actually made a considerable difference to my overall health as well as the health of my family.

Without spelling out to you how this process actually takes place in our bodies, wouldn't you want to do everything you possibly can to not only protect yourself from degenerative diseases,but also protect the ones you care about ? Because the stats worldwide are only getting worse as we treat the effects rather than prevent it from happening in the first place.