Vitamins For Women: Supplements Your Body Really Needs
By: James S.
Submitted: 2010-04-17 20:41:37 | Word Count: 512
Being a woman could be a lot harder on the body. With the kinds of need the women body has due to the menses, the ability to give birth to a child and then facing the menopause – women do need that extra. Human bodies are like cars, they need to be fuel with what they need to keep them running fine. Generally speaking, Vitamins are important part of the diet. However, just taking any or all the vitamins would not be the best way to go about the same. You should know what vitamins your body needs and the same should be supplied through the supplements. Being a women, there are special needs and that could be managed only through supplements, as balanced diet might not be an option for everyone.
To start with Vitamin D is quite essential for the women body. Though, the same is converted from the sunlight that the human body is exposed to. But with ageing the ability to convert sunlight into vitamin D reduces. This vitamin helps using the calcium that we intake through food or as supplements. Needless to say, that for the ladies calcium is quite important. With the deficit of Vitamin D, one can’t even consume the calcium that is there in the body. At the same time, women and men for that matter wear sunscreen lotions to protect from the sun ray, which restricts the absorption and thus, would reduce the Vitamin D levels in the body. Clearly, that makes taking vitamin D supplements indispensable.
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Folic acid is another vitamin that women need, while they are pregnant or they are willing to conceive. The deficiency of vitamin B in the expecting ladies could result in deficits in the baby as well. The deficit of folic acid would not let the brain develop well for the kid and the spinal cord wouldn’t grow that strong either. Green vegetables, beans and orange juice are a good source of folic acid. However, if arranging or including these in the daily diet is not possible, it is best to compensate the same by in taking the folic acid supplements.
Vitamin B6 and B12 are also quite essential for the woman’s body. Both these B vitamins are indispensable while the ladies are ageing. The capability of the body to process these get limited like in case of Vitamin D and thus, it is required to have these from outside. Either form food or could be taken as supplements. Again, supplements are any day a better way to take care that there is no deficit. B6 is important as it helps in the process of formation of red blood cells, which has its own role to play in the overall functioning of the body. B12 is responsible of the blood cells and the nerve cells to function perfectly well.
Beta carotene, Omega 3 fatty acids, calcium & iron are the other essentials required by the ladies. A good multivitamin could also be a way to supply all the required vitamins that the women’s body need.
Author Resource:-http://www.womenscenter.com/ Dr. James S. Pendergraft opened the Orlando Women's Center in March 1996 to provide a full range of health care for women.
