Daily Vitamin Requirements

Daily vitamin requirements tend to be a little mysterious but it need not be. According to the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC), the standard for our daily vitamins is known as Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA). Of course, there is disagreement among health professionals even with something as basic as daily vitamin requirements.

Truly, there is a vast amount of conflicting and outright fabricated information. In fact, the two agencies of the United Nations, namely the Food & Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, have developed their own RDA for worldwide population groups.

Historically, the strength of a particular vitamin, was expressed with the acronym "IU" meaning international units. This designation is still seen but now is more commonly expressed in metric weights, specifically, micrograms or milligrams.

Why are daily vitamin requirements so important for the body? Because with few notable exceptions like the quasi-vitamin COQ10 (at one time dubbed Vitamin Q), the body is unable to synthesize the vitamins and minerals it needs. Even nutrients like COQ10 need other nutrients, vitamins, to come into being. The only way the body can get the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes it needs is through one's daily diet and supplements.

Daily Vitamin Requirements & Nutritional Bankruptcy

One disturbing fact is that 90% of the money spent on food in America is on processed food. These foods are nutritional bankrupt and provide no real nutrition to the body. It's easy to see the appeal of processed foods: They're easy to buy, prepare, and eat. They're convenient but at the price of diminished health. One survey said 65 to 91% of Americans do not eat adequate amounts of fruits and vegetables.

These organic foods help us with not only needed fiber but give us live enzymes our bodies need (as well as vitamins and minerals). Americans are truly overfed and under nourished. Incidentally, you should know food manufacturers deliberately (some say maliciously) put in substances into foods that not only make you addicted, but even more hungry. Many soda drinks, for example, have phosphoric acid, which leaches calcium from the bones causing unwanted and excessive calcium excretion.

Obviously these foods taste good or people wouldn't be buying them but they don't help one obtain daily vitamin requirements.

Many people think you can get your daily vitamin requirements from your diet provided it is a diet rich in vegetables and fruits. Unfortunately, that is not true! Due to over farming, storability, and transportability, the vitamin value of foods has slipped precipitously. Listen to what Dr. Phil Warman, agronomist and professor of agricultural sciences at Nova Scotia Agricultural College said,

"Crops are bred to produce higher yields, to be resistant to disease and to produce more visually attractive fruits or vegetables, but little or no emphasis is placed on their vitamin and mineral content."

Tim Lang who is a professor for the Center for Food Policy in England has said that it would take eight oranges today to get the same nutritional value as that of your grandparents. In only one generation, the food values of our common staple foods has dropped.

In another study done in Canada of common foods used by most Westerners, namely potatoes, bananas, tomatoes, onions, broccoli, and apples, it was found that the potato has lost 100% of its Vitamin A, 57% of its Vitamin C and iron, 28% of its calcium, 50% of its riboflavin, and 18% of its thiamine. Needless to say, Westerners need to supplement their diets or else they simply won't reach their daily vitamin requirements.

Basic Daily Vitamin Requirements: Precautions Info & Guidelines

The following are some basic tips to follow in meeting your RDAs.

1. Avoid megadoses of supplements -- again especially with fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, K. Don't forget to include all supplements including food. Taking too many daily vitamin requirements is actual detrimental to your health, especially with fat-soluble vitamins like A, D, E, K. In fact, too much vitamin A in the body is toxic. The old saying, "All things in moderation" has some applicability here.
2. Don't double up on recommended dosages for supplements.
3. Try to eat organic fruit and vegetables as they have higher volume of nutrients than mass produced farm products.
4. Avoid processed foods.
5. Take a quality, assimilable multi-vitamin, multi-nutrient supplement. Most Westerners don't eat healthy and are undernourished. One's health can be dramatically improved, or at the very least, one can experience greater levels of energy if they would add other potent nutrients like resveratrol, COQ10, piperine, policosanol ,and others.

How To Choose A Good Multivitamin

In order to choose the best, high quality supplement that is actually assimilable in the body (90% of store bought supplements are excreted out through urine), one needs to look for certain criteria so as to optimize one's budget. Here's what Irecommend to look for, gleaned from over 24 years of study.

1. The supplements should be produced at pharmaceutical standard GMP registered facilities. Facilities that are GMP registered comply with the most rigid standards so as to minimize the possibility of product contaminants. 

2. Ideally, make sure the supplement does not contain any fillers or additives such as sucrose (sugar), starch, gluten, silica (sand) or any other artificial colors, dyes, or flavors.

Daily Vitamin Requirements

In order to reach one's daily vitamin requirements, I've discovered a product that is not only assimilable, but relatively inexpensive that fits within my budget. A New Zealand company offers GMP compliant products. Their multivitamin product is scientifically formulated containing 70 vitamins, minerals, trace and specialty minerals, and nutrient-rich enzymes.

It is a pharmaceutical grade quality product produced in New Zealand, a country that has dietary supplement standards exceeding FDA requirements for pharmaceutical medications.

Yours in health, hope, and harmony,
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