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Essential Vitamins Your Body Needs
Vitamins are elements in nature which are essential to life. Since herbs are a
source of vitamins, it's helpful to know more about which vitamins are
particularly important and useful for various ailments and illnesses that come
along in life. Mixing vitamins, minerals and herbs will usually give you the
best health and wellness results in life. This is one of the reasons why we
mix multiple herbs and foods together sometimes, because the mixtures provide
us with more results than the individual elements do alone.
Now, if we were to eat the proper amount of fresh vegetables and fruits -
particularly raw or lightly cooked ones - we wouldn't need to worry about
adding vitamins and minerals through supplements or herbs. Even eating plenty
of fruits and vegetables alone may not be enough these days though
unfortunately, because many pesticides and chemicals are used when food is
grown these days. The soil our foods are grown in is also depleted... severely
in some cases... of the essential nutrients which the plants need to give us
optimal health.
In addition to those problems, we also now have a lot more processed foods
today than we did even forty or fifty years ago. Back in 1941, only about 10%
of foods were processed. By 1993 or so, that had risen to at least 50%.
Chronic illness and disease has risen drastically in that same time frame.
Vitamins are a way to help counter effect those drastic changes in our world
today. They help make our bodies stronger, healthier and able to fight off
disease, illness and infections much more effectively.
Herbalists and natural medicine specialists feel that most - if not all - of
today's illness and chronic diseases are caused by vitamin and mineral
deficiencies. More and more scientific research is beginning to support these
beliefs too. It is now known that increasing levels of certain vitamins and
nutrients in our daily lives will actually help reduce and alleviate many
medical problems. In some cases, the proper amount of vitamins and nutrition
can actually reverse common health problems too.
There are a large number of vitamins, nutrients, and minerals our bodies need
on a daily basis though. So many in fact, that it would be ludicrous to think
each one could be taken individually as a supplement. Fresh fruits and raw
vegetables, though, along with herbal supplements, are power packed with a
large variety of vitamins and minerals naturally. This is why we're told to
eat more fruits and vegetables, and this is also why some people use herbal
supplements in place of synthetic vitamins too. Because you can get much more
of a wider variety of essential vitamins, just by eating certain foods and
plant based herbs or supplements.
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