As a rule healthy eaters who care about eating a nutritionally balanced diet are acquainted with the three macronutrients that recieve the most media attention inside the diet world: proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. To be sure, some highly regarded eating plans, like the Isometric Diet®, are designed to deliver an optimal balance of those 3 macronutrients.
Yet what's often not brought up during a discussion of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats, is that the simple truth that vitamin supplements play a critical role in an overall nutritionally balanced eating plan. It's a neglect that, paradoxically, derives from scientific misunderstanding.
Till just recently, the scientific community firmly believed that vitamin supplements were needless and potentially even harmful to our health. This assertion was based mostly on the opinion that the body’s vitamin requirements might be met by eating a well balanced diet, and that vitamin supplements are basically created using artificial, low quality ingredients.
But, evidence to the contrary has appeared; or to state things more accurately, the scientific community is finally acknowledging a new outlook. Clinical studies unmistakably show that top quality vitamin supplements can be created from all natural sources, and that using them will prevent serious health ailments such as heart disease, osteoporosis, and even cancer [i].
It's also been accepted that vitamin supplements help the body successfully control how the body utilizes energy. In this sense, they guarantee that the energy delivered by macronutrients – in the shape of calories – is directed properly to aid growth and development [ii].
However, despite the scientifically proven importance of vitamin supplements, some primary concerns have been raised. In particular, the nutrition community has raised queries with respect to the potential toxicity of supplements that contain “fat-soluble” vitamins. Fat-soluble vitamins don't seem to be simply and swiftly eliminated by the body. Rather, they're stored in organs and tissues. Over a period of time, there will be a build-up of fat-soluble vitamins [iii], which can lead to unfavorable health effects such as nausea, diarrhea, unhealthy weight loss, bone density loss, and digestive tract disorders [iv].
Fortunately, to avoid this possible harm, there are vitamin and nutritional supplement products out there that provide water-soluble vitamins. Water-soluble vitamins travel smoothly through the body and the excess is excreted through the kidneys. As such, there's very little to no risk of toxic build up [v].
At the same time, these water-soluble vitamin and nutritional supplements can be derived from all-natural sources. This is vital to note, as a result of, synthetic vitamins will only replicate a fraction of the beneficial nutrients found in natural sources. As such, the holistic positive impact that may solely return from several nutrients operating together cannot be reproduced synthetically [vi].
For people trying to drop some pounds as well as the regular consumer these scientific aknowledgements of the value of vitamin supplements as well as the ease of access of all natural water soluble products.
Various diets recklessly advise people trying to lose weight to use diuretic pills that cause weight loss through water loss. As a result of this short-term strategy, dieters quite often become dangerously lacking in water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, Biotin, and Folic Acid.
But, some well-designed nutritional supplements give anywhere from 50% to 100% of those important vitamins. As such, dieters who are currently subscribing to an unhealthy water-loss diet can responsibly transition to these products, and replenish their depleted water-soluble vitamin stock.
Similarly, people trying to lose weight who are lucky enough to have avoided these potentially dangerous diet pill/diuretic diets will wisely integrate these nutritional supplements into their current eating program.
Indeed, the scientific community, for all of the contributions it's made to diet and nutrition, has been abnormally slow in accepting the actual fact that vitamin supplements are a necessary part of healthy eating. However the consensus of this fact is now fairly widespread, as the understanding that water-soluble and all-natural products merely outclass fat-soluble and synthetic products regarding safety and efficiency.
It might have taken more than 10 years or therefore too long to reach this “vitamin awareness”, however now that it is here, it's reason for both dieters and non-dieters to celebrate a way forward for healthier and smarter eating.
REFERENCES
[i] Source: “Dietary Insurance: A Daily Multivitamin”. Harvard School of Public Health.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/vitamins.html
[ii] Source: “Vitamins and Minerals”. McKinley Health Center.
http://www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/Handouts/vitaminmineral.html
[iii] Source: “Toxicity of Vitamins”. Medicinal Foods News.
http://www.medicinalfoodnews.com/vol04/issue3/toxicity.htm
[iv] Source: “Fat-Soluble Vitamins”. Colorado State University.
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/foodnut/09315.html
[vi] Source: “Natural Vitamins or Synthetic?”. Olga Timbol.
http://www.chiff.com/a/natural-vitamin.htm
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