Posts tagged 'whole food vitamins'

Supplementing your diet with Vitamin C is vital because it is one vitamin that our bodies do not produce. And without adequate supplies of Vitamin C we become susceptible to scurvy, though scurvy is unheard of now a days. But, it did bring to light the importance of Vitamin C in the human diet. The Recommended Daily Allowance, RDA for Vitamin C is 60 mg a day. This RDA of 60mg a day is the minimum you need each day so you don't get scurvy. You can easily exceed the RDA and still gain massive health benefits. When considering vitamin it is important to note that there is the normal dosage and what is known as therapeutic doses, which are higher than the normal dose. Therapeutic doses will benefit us most when our bodies are in need of extra nutrition, such as when we are sick or recovering from illness.

If you were to buy a Vitamin C tablet at the drug store you would be buying a lab made ascorbic acid powder. Now ascorbic acid is only a part of Vitamin C, not the whole picture. Now say if you were to eat a handful of Acerola cherries or peel an orange you would be getting ascorbic acid along with hundreds of other co-factors which all work in synergy to give you a well balanced Vitamin C compound. This complex is not easily replicated in a lab. That is because when it is found in nature it is naturally balanced.