Quinn on Nutrition: Vitamins and minerals, beneficial to healthy bodies - Journal Times |
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Quinn on Nutrition: Vitamins and minerals, beneficial to healthy bodies - Journal Times | Darrell Miller | 03/05/17 |
Date:
March 05, 2017 12:59 PM
Author: Darrell Miller
(support@vitanetonline.com)
Subject: Quinn on Nutrition: Vitamins and minerals, beneficial to healthy bodies - Journal Times
Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients because they perform hundreds of roles in the body. There is a fine line between getting enough of these nutrients, which is healthyand getting too much, which can end up harming you Eating a healthy diet remains the best way to get sufficient amounts of the vitamins and minerals you need.
Key Takeaways:
- Humans can't produce Vitamin C.
- If we don’t routinely add Vitamin C to our bodies, everything from our blood vessels to our bones eventually breaks down.
- Real food is still the best way to get the vital nutrients we need.
"It was then I learned that guinea pigs, like humans, cannot make vitamin C — a nutrient that quite literally keeps us knitted together."
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