How well we vitamins supplies will depend on our food and nutrition practices. Those who are fully nourished, takes plenty of vitamins. Strong deficiency symptoms are rare in this country. Specific charges, e.g. by pregnancy, diet or smoking strong, but a higher vitamin needs arise - additional vitamins have her:
- Pregnant and lactating women have an increased need for vitamin A, C, B1, B6 and folic acid.
- Heavy smokers (20 cigarettes per day) will need 40 percent more vitamin C than non-smokers.
- Those who drink alcohol regularly, should be equipped with additional B-vitamins supply.
- Who more than 50 years old, needs vitaminreicheres food as younger ones, because the body with increasing age absorbs vitamins.
- Who makes a slimming, can also have problems: Many diet programs are very one-sided, the vitamins are too short.
- Who will take medicines regularly, can - without having to remember - with vitamins unterversorgt. Some drugs, e.g. Antibiotics and the pill, inhibit the vitamin intake.
- Who in a metropolitan or near a large industrial settlement lives, we need more antioxidants (vitamin E), the aggressive cells from oxygen compounds called free radicals.
Athletes need more B vitamins and antioxidants.
- Who is under stress - such as chronic diseases are stress for the body - has increased vitamin needs.
