Preventing Chronic Diseases From Vitamin And Mineral Supplements

We do not depend solely depend on the natural diets to keep ourselves feet and healthy these days. Apart from the natural foods we also take various vitamin and mineral supplements which we think may keep ourselves healthy and prevent us from any chronic diseases. We often use various supplements without knowing what they actually do to our health or whether these are at all required. But we should definitely know whether these supplements claiming to be contained with sufficient vitamins and nutrition really help to prevent chronic diseases or not before consuming them blindly. It is time to dig deeper and take out what lies within.

We can find many doctors saying that the Vitamins and minerals and other nutrient supplements are of no use in building our health or prevent any diseases. Rather most of them opine that we can consume enough vitamins and minerals from our daily diets. Though it is not that these supplements are complete waste of money, but if necessary they can work as additional supplements in case we fall short of our required nutrition. These types of supplements come in various forms and that includes capsules, syrups or in powdered forms. But the most common form is probably the capsules which are known as multivitamin tablets. There are no proof that these capsules or the other multivitamin nutrients actually do good to human health rather various studies since the past two years shows that these are more harmful instead.

How many of you have heard that a certain study has opines in favour of consuming additional supplements to keep yourself healthy and fit? Probably none of you. But if I ask you that how many of you have heard that these supplements are not at all good for health then I suppose most of you will raise your hands. Unfortunately, it is true to some extent. In fact, many studies all over the world involving the effects of nutrient supplements have shown that these can be dangerous for your health. A recent study has shown that intake of these supplements put our health at risk increasing the chances of stroke, cancers and others diseases.  On the other hand another study on a group of Chinese and French people showed that consuming of these nutrients have prevented cancers in both French and Chinese men but not in the women.

But there are a few supplements which can work as good substitutes. One can consume Vitamin A, C, D, E supplements, Fish oil supplements, Enzyme C0Q-10 or Selenium if necessary. Though the medical experts have taken neutral position on vitamin and mineral supplements the companies that manufacture theses multivitamins worldwide are not quite satisfied with all these negative hypes as it has to some extent effected their business. These companies have invested around $25 billion in these products. But none of them have mentioned the potential side effects of these items on their product descriptions. It would probably be good if these companies also come under the same rule as the other pharmaceutical medicines where the detailed of the products as well as the probable side effects are mentioned clearly.