As health awareness continues to improve, people are also increasingly concerned about their nutritional supplements.
, especially supplementing vitamins and minerals, whether it is an offline supermarket or opening a shopping app. All kinds of nutrient supplements can be seen.
Most of these nutritional supplements are products that aim to supplement vitamins and minerals rather than energy, including single and complex supplements.
Why does the human body need additional vitamins and minerals?
Vitamin and mineral deficiency is often a process from quantitative change to qualitative change. It is almost difficult to see the corresponding symptoms throughout the process. Even if there is a deficiency, you will have some relative discomfort symptoms, but the physical examination indicators are normal.
If you wait until your body experiences severe discomfort and cause some clinical symptoms, it will often be relatively serious at this time.
According to the 2012 survey data, the current intake of vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, and vitamin E in Chinese is significantly lower than the recommended value .
For minerals, people intake of calcium below the average demand account for 96.6%, and about 35.6% of the situation is at risk of insufficient zinc intake, and 11.5% of the people intake of iron intake account for 11.5%.
If the human body lacks minerals and vitamins, what health risks will it cause?
You should know that inorganic salts, protein , dietary fiber, fat, moisture, vitamins and mineral elements belong to the seven major nutritional elements of the human body.
, the seven major nutrient elements, can maintain the normal life activities of the body, and the functions of each nutrient element are different, and the body is indispensable.
For example, calcium ion belongs to a category of mineral elements. Once lacking, it will affect the normal development and function of bones and teeth, and will also affect the normal function of neuromuscles.
For most people, once calcium deficiency is found in the body, they will actively supplement calcium, and the potassium element among the mineral elements also plays a crucial role.
If the body is lacking, its risk will even exceed that of calcium ions.
Calcium supplementation is a science. You have to find the right method to achieve twice the result with half the effort
First, choose the right food
If you want to supplement calcium, you have to choose the right food. Some foods seem to be rich in calcium, but in fact the nutrients in them are difficult to absorb by the human body, such as bone soup, shrimp skin, etc.
Some people use these foods to supplement calcium, but they don’t know that shrimp skin is difficult to digest. If the gastrointestinal function is weak, eating too much shrimp skin will affect it. At the same time, the sodium content of shrimp skin is quite high, and increasing sodium content will easily lead to calcium loss.
In addition, the dissolved calcium in bone soup is very small, which often makes people consume more fat and cholesterol , which causes obesity and intensifies calcium loss.
If you want to supplement calcium, you will have better calcium supplementation effects in dairy products, beans, and vegetables, especially milk.
Second, while supplementing calcium, vitamin
While supplementing calcium, vitamin D need to be supplemented with vitamin D. Some people eat improperly, picky or partial to eating, and lack some nutrients needed by the body will also lead to insufficient calcium intake, which will make the bones fragile.
It is not enough to supplement calcium alone. After all, calcium must be absorbed by the human body, which reflects the importance of obtaining vitamin D. Vitamin D can just promote the absorption of calcium.
And that's why we encourage everyone to eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, coarse grains, etc. to provide nutrition. Of course, sunbathing can also promote the body to synthesize this substance.
If you suffer from metabolic diseases, you should actively treat the primary disease so that the calcium intake can be fully absorbed by the human body. At the same time, choose pure milk, try not to drink additive-containing milk, and maintain a balanced diet while drinking milk.
maintains nutritional balance and enhances the body's immunity and resistance. It can not only reduce the incidence of osteoporosis , but also reduce the incidence of other diseases.
Finally, I need to remind you that nutrient supplements are just a convenient way to make up for dietary subsidies, but if you want to maintain a balanced diet, you still need to eat well. You cannot use nutritional supplements as your meal.
References:
【1】Sun Guiju, Yang Yuexin et al. Scientific consensus on the use of nutrient supplements[J]. Journal of Nutrition, 2018, 40(06):521-525.
[2] Guo Qiya, Zhao Liyun et al. Nutrient intake status of Chinese residents from 2010 to 2012[J]. Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2017, 51(06):519-522.
