"How To" take the right amount of vitamins

Vitamins are essential in one's life to stay healthy and are necessary in order to keep the body in shape. Vitamins and minerals are substances that are found in the foods that we eat. Your body needs these vitamins and minerals in order to work properly. Vitamin D in milk helps keep your bones healthy. Vitamin A in carrots helps you to see at night. Vitamin C in oranges helps your body heal if you get a cut. Vitamin B in vegetables helps your body create protien and energy. As you can see the body needs at least these 4 vitamins if not more. The body can not make vitamins, you have to give them to yourself. Your body is able to get the vitamins it needs becasue all the different foods we eat contain different vitamins. The hint is to eat a lot of different foods to get an assortment of vitamins.

Many children are not willing to eat different foods. This is not good for a child's growing body, so this is where taking vitamin supplements comes into play. As you were a child, I am sure your parents told you to take your vitamins and eat, etc. Vitamin intake begins when you were a newborn, when your parents put the liquid vitamin in formula. Then as a toddler, you would take the sesame street chewable vitamins and then as a teenager start swallowing adult vitamins. People of all ages are in need of getting the right amount of vitamins and minerals to function. Taking a viamin every morning can make you feel better, have more energy and prevent your body from being sick. Even if you think you eat the right amount of different foods, it does not hurt to take a vitamin or two to give your body extra vitamins and minerals it needs to stay healthy.

Many people today are working out. Working out takes a lot of energy from your body. In order for this to work, one needs to not only make sure their body has engough vitmains and minerals but PROTEIN is the number one. There are many protien supplements to take after you work out. For example, you can make protien shakes and have a protien bar. These things are not fatening if you are worried about weight, they can help you maintain your body shape as well as doing this in a healthy way.

So, I hope you realized how important it is to have the right amount of vitamins and minerals in your body. If you are or are not eating the right amounts of foods, I hope you go to the store and purchase vitamins to take because I am sure that the body becomes a lot more healthier if it has the right amount of nutrients it needs.