Feeling overwhelmed with recommendations on a supplement to take? Trust me, you aren’t alone.
Clogging your cabinets with products you aren’t taking does no favors for your health or your wallet. How did all of these products land in your medicine cabinet to begin with?… Attempting a purge, what is the most effective supplement to take regularly?
Let’s be realistic here, a multivitamin will not cure or stop all disease processes. If you are eating at McDonald’s everyday and think a multivitamin will soften the effects of your diet- think again. No supplement will take the place of a healthy well balanced diet. However, lets not overlook the heath benefits here.
“42% of American adults take vitamins regularly… The multivitamin is the most popular dietary supplement”~ According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition
Specific supplements are aimed at targeting different diseases. If you walk into any health food store your head will spin looking up and down the isles. As always, check in with your health care practitioner and ask them for recommendations specific to your health concerns.
Multivitamins once a day
Balz Frei, professor/director at the Linus Pauling Institute, is an expert on the role of vitamins and health promotion. He states his study “Multivitamins in the Prevention of Cancer in Men” points to an 8% overall drop in cancer rates amongst a host of other health benefits. Frei goes on to explain-
- “For decades, a standard tenet of conventional medicine has been that people will get all of the vitamins and micronutrients they need in a normal healthy diet. That’s often not true.”
- “We’ve known for a long time that something as simple as a multivitamin can help fill nutritional gaps, even if you try to eat right. Research has shown that over 90 percent of the U.S. population, for instance, doesn’t get enough vitamin E, and that 40 percent of elderly Americans have inadequate zinc in their diet.”
- “Quite simply, at around a penny a day a multivitamin is the cheapest health insurance a person will ever buy,” he said. “Of course it’s just a supplement, and it’s not a substitute for a good diet and healthy lifestyle. But this study should finally answer all the doubters out there who still think multivitamin supplements have no value. And it further confirms they are completely safe to take.” ~ According to OSU