Choosing Vitamins

The food is usually enough to cover our daily needs for vitamins, provided that eat everything. These needs are not necessarily all be covered on a daily basis, but over a period of fifteen days, we can estimate that there is no deficiency.

However, some people are deficient in the case of poor nutrition or unbalanced. It can be often elderly, pregnant women, heavy drinkers and smokers (smoking increases by 30% requirement for vitamin C), adolescents, and women who are dieting.

To choose the vitamins, you should know that there are over 15 different kinds. They are generally classified into two groups: water-soluble vitamins (soluble in water) and fat-soluble vitamins (fat soluble) . Their contributions are varied and require prior identification of your needs or your shortcomings. As part of a checkup, a doctor can help you in this research and offer you the vitamins are best suited to your profile.


To supplement your vitamin intake, you can choose between a large number of solutions.Healthiest and least expensive is to vary your diet and eat lots of fresh fruit.

Vitamins are swarming in your plate

For input "natural" vitamin A, there is nothing better than carrots (raw or cooked), fresh chervil, apricot, spinach, pumpkin, lettuce, peppers, melons, tomatoes and pickle. The cod-liver oil, the livers of animals and dandelion are among the foods rich in vitamin A.


If you lean more to the vitamin B1, prefer dry yeast, baker's yeast, wheat germ, fish eggs, dried peas, beans, pork, walnuts, hazelnuts and lentils dry.


For a cure of vitamin C, turn readily to the broccoli, zucchini, strawberries, kiwi, papaya, red pepper, oranges, Brussels sprouts, black currants. A high vitamin C deficiency is the cause of scurvy, a disease disappeared in affluent countries, but deadly.
Finally, to meet your needs for vitamin E, promote oil wheat germ, sunflower oil, palm oil, margarine and nuts. The almond oil and cod liver are often recommended in cases of vitamin E.

Artificial inputs to meet your needs

You can also find food "guaranteed content of vitamin" and foods "fortified with vitamins" and vitamin tablets, sold in pharmacies or supermarkets.


Be aware that food vitamins are guaranteed content of industrial products which have been added vitamins destroyed by the manufacturing process. Those "rich in vitamins" are virtually over: since June 1992. Only grain, some lunches and chocolate biscuits for children have the right to be rich in vitamins, and the dose rarely exceeds 25% of recommended daily intake.


If you want to take vitamin tablets, please choose cocktails multivitamins, which contain all the essential vitamins.