Stop The Supplements: What Vitamins & Minerals Really Do For Our Bodies and Where We Find Them in Food
Stop The Supplements: What Vitamins & Minerals Really Do For Our Bodies and Where We Find Them in Food It amazes me how many clients reach out or come to me and proceed to tell me all about their “clean” eating habits. They tell me how they only eat wholesome, organic foods and never eat fast food. Then their next question n is “What vitamins can you recommend?” to help with weight management. Or they hand me a list of vitamins and supplements they take that someone sold them or told them they should take. As the last part of my National Nutrition Month series, I’m dropping some knowledge about vitamins and minerals and what they ACTUALLY do for us (HINT! It has NOTHING to do with giving you more energy!). WHAT VITAMINS REALLY DO Vitamins are an essential part of a healthy, functioning body. They do not provide any calories for energy. In other words, vitamins don’t give us energy. What vitamins do is serve as an important assistant with many processes in our b
