Dear Health Conscious Reader ,
Let’s assume you’re the ideal person.
You eat your vegetables, you don’t smoke, you drink in moderation, you avoid
junk food, and you exercise every day. Do you, the role model of healthy living,
really need to take vitamins?
Yes!!
Nutritional supplements help make up
for some of the foods we don’t eat – and they help compensate for some of the
foods we do eat that aren’t so good for us.
When I look at the latest medical
research on this, I find that people who take a daily multivitamin supplement
have stronger immune systems and suffer fewer infections than people who don’t
take supplements.1
One study I found in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
was more evidence of what I’ve discovered in my own practice: that
multivitamins can keep you younger, longer. People in the clinical trial who
took a daily multivitamin had 5.1 %
longer telomeres than people who didn’t take a multivitamin.
Length of Telomers attached to our DNA is responsible for our Biological
Age. That means the biological age of their DNA is almost 10 years younger than
people who don’t take vitamins. So daily standard multivitamin supplements help
you to protect your telomeres.
In a recent
Indian on dietary supplements concluded that only less than 1.5 % Indians were taking
the minimum recommended daily allowance (RDA) of their essential vitamins.
On any given day, 97% Indians do not consume the
recommended amount of fruits and vegetables, with 75 % not consuming any
vitamin-C-rich fruits and 80 % not consuming any carotene-containing
vegetables.
Americans often eat the same small
number of foods every day, without much variety.
Unless you are the rare exception, you probably don’t get even the most basic, life-preserving requirement of all your important vitamins and minerals.
Unless you are the rare exception, you probably don’t get even the most basic, life-preserving requirement of all your important vitamins and minerals.
Nobel laureate Linus Pauling said, “Recommended daily allowances only give levels of
vitamins and minerals that will prevent death or serious illness from vitamin
deficiency. To get real health benefits from vitamins, you need to get more
than just the minimal recommended amounts.”
I would recommend you take at least these four extra nutrients
every day:
CoQ10: In the reduced ubiquinol form: 50 to 100 mg a day.
Cod Liver Oil: In its natural triglyceride form; gives you 3 to 5 grams of
omega-3s a day.
Vitamin D3: 1000 to 1500 I.U. a day.
Vitamin C: 1000 to 2,000 mg in divided doses a day.
Dr Minoo Singh
VanityIndia.Com
drminoosingh@live.in
VanityIndia.Com
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