The Complete Idiot's Guide To Vitamins And Minerals




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Introduction
Live Better with Vitamins
Every year Americans spend more than $4 billion on vitamins, minerals, and other supplements. Why? They're seeking better health, perhaps a longer and more vigorous life, or maybe help for a painful health problem. Are they finding it? Yes! Can you? Yes! If you understand how important vitamins and minerals are and what they can—and can't—do, you too can achieve better health. Why Are They So Important? You need thirteen different vitamins and at least ten minerals to stay alive. Vitamins and minerals are essential to your health—you have to have them to stay alive and to be healthy. Vitamins and minerals are also needed to make the thousands of enzymes, hormones, and other chemical messengers your body uses to grow, repair itself, make energy, remove wastes, defend you against infection, and generally keep you running smoothly. You also need them to keep your bones strong, your eyes sharp, and your brain alert. And, most important of all, you need them to help protect you against cancer and heart disease.
The only way you can get all those vitamins and minerals into your body is to eat them. That's why we'll talk about your diet over and over again in this book—the foods you eat are your best way to get the nutrients you need. But even if you could eat right all the time—and most people can't—you might still benefit from some extra vitamins and minerals.

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