Bradley Simpson

Too often people focus on a magic vitamin or mineral as being the key to good health. Unless you are severely deficient it is not. Eating fresh, whole foods is still the ‘secret’ despite what the newest diet, weight loss supplements, or health food shop attendant tells you.

Taking pill form vitamins and minerals may be a good safe guard against deficiency, but before you even think about buying them ensure you are doing the following:

• Meeting your fruit and vegetable quota. One easy way to start trying to achieve this is to buy the number of pieces of fruit and vegetables from the supermarket each week, eg 2 people * 5 servings a day = 70 servings of fruit and vegetables at the weekly shop. As a crude measure a handful is 1 serving. Therefore think 70 handfuls at the supermarket when you are looking in your shopping cart. Don’t be put off by this though – a serving may be less than you think – you can check out approximate serving sizes at the bottom of this link.
• Eat fresh fish at least once a week.
• Have a mixture of nuts and seed of which you have a handful every day.

As is often my theme, you should be trying to get the biggest bang for your buck. The biggest effect for your effort, regarding vitamins and minerals is without a doubt eating a variety of fruits, vegetables, meats and fish, nuts and seeds.

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