Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Do You Know the Benefits of Multivitamins?

The natural food we take contains Vitamins are contained in the foods we intake and these are considered as natural substances which every human body needs to grow and develop normally. These are the vitamins which help for the healthy body function. There are various vitamins that have their own significance individually. One can obtain vitamins through a well and healthy balanced diet.

But there are certain conditions which makes a person need more vitamins, like for pregnant women, children and for the persons who are sick of certain diseases. In this condition, multivitamins are to be provided which is a way to provide vitamins and minerals to those individuals in order to overcome or prevent the deficiency of vitamins. Deficiency of vitamins leads to several diseases.

Standard multivitamin supplements in the form of capsules, tablets, liquids and injections are suggested to consume once or twice per day play a major and important role in preventing some serious diseases like cancer, osteoporosis and diseases related to heart.

Multivitamins are generally suggested to the children under five years in the form of vitamin drops who don't eat proper and varied food at proper timings, to the teenagers who have improper diet schedule, to the pregnant women as they need more vitamins than they need, to the older people who cannot obtain vitamins from foods through improper digestion and some people who suffer from certain diseases cannot obtain vitamins from the food.

Although daily multivitamin supplement leads to better healthy life, some side effects may not be reported for some people. So, it is always better to consult a doctor or health care provider before going to opt for multivitamin supplements.

It may be dangerous to use multivitamin supplement to the people who are already under medication as there will be reaction between the two, the drug and the multivitamin supplement. It may be dangerous if consumed in large doses as it can do more harm rather than good.

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