First of all, our food is not near as nutritious as it used to be. The fruit that we buy at the grocery store almost always comes from out of state, and has traveled more than the average 20 year old. In handling and shipping, fruit loses much of it's nutritional value, so we need vitamin supplements to make up for this.



Second, we are becoming increasingly aware of the effects that vitamins and vitamin deficiency can have on us. In the early days of sailing, there was a horrible disease that sailors would often contract called scurvy. Many sailors and soldiers died from the disease, not knowing that a simple vitamin found in citrus fruit would cure them.

We now know that many of the early ailments that people suffered from were simply vitamin deficiencys, not some unknown disease. Now that we know what a vitamin deficiency can cause, we are able to combat it with vitamin supplements.

The trick is finding the right vitamin supplement for your needs. For most people, just taking a multi-vitamin once or twice a day does just fine. We still get a decent amount of nutrition from the food we eat, so not too much is needed.

When looking for a multi-vitamin, stay away from anything man-made, usually labeled as "synthetic." These are man's attempt to do in the laboratory what God has done in the real world, and they just aren't effective.

That said, there are two types of natural vitamin supplements, dead and live. They are both completely natural, but you won't benefit much from taking dead vitamins. In most cases, these vitamins are cooked and put into pill form. In the cooking process, the nutrients are killed, but the dead vitamin remains, and that is what you are taking.

So find a good, live, multi vitamin supplement, and stay away from anything that says "cooked" or "synthetic / man made." If you would like to learn more about other types of vitamins and what they do for your body, visit http://Health-FoodVitamin.com.