There is no doubt that our health is getting weaker with every year that goes by. People are worried about this fact and they are trying in every possible way to change this. For some people it is really difficult to keep a healthy diet. Unluckily this is the only way in which they can provide their bodies with all the required nutrients and vitamins.
Instead of the healthy diet people are trying to compensate this by taking vitamins in a form of pills. But what they don’t know is that sometimes this can make more harm than good. There is a big danger from the quantities in some of these vitamins. Beta-carotene is one of them and if it is taken in bigger than the recommended dose, it increases the risk of lung cancer for 20%. In one study in which were included 35,000 Americans, was revealed that too much vitamin E increases your prostate cancer risk by 17%.
Folic acid supplements and others used to combat the risk of heart disease increased the chances of colon cancer as well. In another study of a National Health and Nutrition study of 12,000 adults, 45% said they believed multivitamins improved their health. 33% thought they would maintain their health by consuming them. 23% received recommendations from their doctors to take multivitamins.
We hope that after reading this you will try to change your diet as much as you can instead of consuming multivitamins. All the nutrients and vitamins that your body needs can be found in the fruits and the vegetables. For example you can find folic acid in the green vegetables like broccoli, vitamin E in kale and almonds and beta-carotene in carrots and mangos.
