When you are pregnant it is important that you fully appreciate the significance of vitamins and minerals.
They are of course essential for the healthy development of your unborn baby.
Therefore, you need to know what the various vitamins do and more importantly how you can make them a part of your diet.
Here are 7 crusical vitamins and minerals for you and your new baby’s health

There’s a lot of hype about B vitamins in the media, especially vitamin B12, probably because of the high amounts of B vitamins in some energy drinks. So here’s your primer–let’s call it B Vitamins 101.
The B vitamins are water soluble. That means they’re not stored in the body but are used and then eliminated. The Bs are found mainly in brewer’s yeast, soy beans, organ meats, vegetables, some dairy products, fish, and poultry. The Bs could be called the absolute Bs because they’re …

Vitamins and minerals do not in themselves provide energy, but macronutrients depend on them to regulate the release of energy from food.

* Vitamins are organic substances.
* They activate enzymes, which are proteins that act as catalysts to speed up biological reactions that take place in your body.
* Your body produces a certain amount of vitamins D and K, but all other vitamins come from your diet or supplementation.

Minerals are inorganic substances that originate from rocks and ores and enter the food chain through the soil.

* We get minerals either by eating plants grown on mineral-rich soil or by eating animals that have fed on these plants.
* Calcium, magnesium and phosphorus are the major constituents of bone.
* Sodium and potassium control your body’s water balance.
* Other minerals (chromium, iron, and magnesium) are needed for various chemical processes to take place in the body.
* Omega Fatty Acids
* Phytonutrients, also referred to as phytochemicals, are compounds that act as a natural defense system in plants, and that also have a beneficial effect on human health.

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When I was younger I thought the mere act of buying a vitamin and taking it home was a major health step. Later I even swallowed some of them.
As I got older I met people in and out of the Health and what would become the Wellness Business (and I mean business). Among these people I met some researches and doctors who studied the effects of vitamins on the body – and on the sewage system I might add. (dont forget 40 years ago maybe less doctors had very little …

Minerals and trace elements are an integral part of the chemical structure of almost all vitamins, enzymes, amino acids and a host of other substances that our body depends upon to be healthy and function properly. Did you know that plants absorb around 70 to 80 different minerals from the soil during the time they are growing? The majority of fertilizers used today by commercial growers contain only about five or six types of minerals. So where will the rest of the minerals come …