In an ideal world, we all be eating copious in amount of
nutrient-dense foods such as fruits and the vegetables — and getting all the
essential vitamins
and the nutrients our bodies that need for the optimal health.
But, as a nation, we are far from that the healthful eating
ideal.
According to the Centers for the Disease Control and the
Prevention, Americans, only eat about one of the fruit and one or two
vegetables on a typical day. This helps that explain why the millions of people
fall short of the recommended that intakes of some the vitamins and minerals.
For instance, that more than 1 in 3 children and teens (ages
9 to 18) that don't meet recommended intakes for the calcium and vitamin D,
according to a study in The Journal of Pediatrics.
How might people with the
less-than-stellar diets plug that the gaps of good nutrition?
Fortification efforts, such as the Food and Drug
Administration's requirement that the folic acid be added to many of cereals
and breads, that have paid off. As this CDC infographic points out, that folate
levels in the women increased by 50 percent between the 1993 and 2006. This is
the critical, since folate that helps prevent the birth defects.
Another option? That have taking daily multivitamin with the
minerals may be helpful.
A study that have published in the American Journal of the
Clinical Nutrition that found supplements helped adults to meet the recommended
intake of the certain minerals, such as the calcium and magnesium in men and
women, as well as iron for the women.
Another study that found that in children and teenagers (ages
9 to 18), "that taking supplements added nutrients (for
example, magnesium, phosphorus, and vitamins A, C, and E) for which that have
intakes would have been inadequate from the food alone," according to
study author Regan Bailey of the National Institutes of the Health.
So, that given the case that vitamins may be a good way to
avoid the nutritional inadequacies, why do that they get a bad rap?
About a year ago, as that have reported, the U.S. Preventive
Services Task Force concluded that there was insufficient to the evidence to
recommend for or the against the use of the multivitamins
for the prevention of cancer and heart
disease.
Some medical experts that have also weighed in, concluding
that the vitamins and the supplements are the waste of money. Researchers also
point to the evidence that taking more than the recommended levels can be
harmful.
As our colleagues at Shots that have pointed out, studies
have found that multivitamins show no benefit in the preventing early death.
What that have more, one of the largest studies that ever
conducted to evaluate the multivitamin use, the Physicians' Health Study II,
determined that, at least in men, taking a multivitamin did not reduce the risk
of death from heart disease.
But the evidence is decidedly that mixed. For instance, that
same study found a small reduction in cancers and cataracts associated with
multivitamin use.
And just this month, a study published in the Journal of
Nutrition found that women who took a multivitamin with minerals for three
years or longer had a lower risk of death from the heart disease. that
Interestingly, that the benefit was not seen in the men.
So that when it comes to preventing serious diseases, the
jury is still out on whether taking multivitamin supplements may be beneficial.
But when it comes to plugging nutritional that gaps in our
diet, that some researchers have say a multivitamin
is the good bet. Jeffrey Blumberg, the senior nutrition scientist at the Tufts
University, is to among them.
" i am not saying it's an excuse not to eat
healthy," Blumberg that told us. But
they have given how many people aren't eating well, "it's a very
prudent thing for many people to choose to take a multivitamin" he says.
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