Eating Healthy-Are you succeeding?

Think you eat pretty healthy?  You may still not be getting the nutrients your need.  One study looked at a wide variety of people, from elite athletes, to couch potatoes. Not one diet had even the 100% RDA (recommended daily allowance) micronutrient levels.  Micronutrients are small nutrients like copper, selenium, zinc, B vitamins, etc.

Is this important?  A study in Australia compared a multivitamin to placebo. The multivitamin:

• Improved Mood
• Reduced the feeling of stress
• Increased wakefulness during the day
• Improved function during the day.

This multivitamin had high levels of the B vitamins. Want to feel better and really get the micronutrients your body needs?  Use a good quality multivitamin.  Avoid vitamins and supplements containing synthetic folic acid.  Contact me, or call the Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy in Rexburg (208-356-4481) to find out about ActivNutrients multivitamin.

Misner, B. (2006). Food alone may not provide sufficient micronutrients for preventing deficiency. Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, 3, 51– 55.

Harris, E., Kirk, J., Rowsell, R., Vitetta, L., Sali, A., Scholey, A. B., & Pipingas, A. (2011). The effect of multivitamin supplementation on mood and stress in healthy older men. Human Psychopharmacology, 26, 560– 567.

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