Ok be honest, do you eat properly?
I’m not talking about a general, all round good diet. I’m talking about two serves of fruit, five serves of veggies and all the other stuff we’re meant to cram in throughout the day.
I’ll put my hand up and say there’re no way I eat that well. Especially when you consider that one serve equates to half a cup of cooked vegetables. We have veggies every night and eat very well compared to a lot of people but it’s still not meeting the recommended daily intake. So it’s no wonder that some of us may be feeling a little depleted or run down.
Our bodies need the right fuel to keep going – the right support to function at the high level that our busy lives demand. If you’re not getting the right nutrition every day, your health and energy levels are going to suffer. So it makes sense to support a well-balanced diet with a supplement to boost any vitamins and minerals you may be missing out on.
Just as an FYI, you should know that this post is sponsored by Cenovis. But all opinions expressed by the author are 100% authentic and written in their own words.
For example, I bet you didn’t know that pregnant women are advised to up that daily intake to four serves of fruit and five to six serves of vegetables, did you? And for breastfeeding mothers, it’s up around five serves of fruit and seven serves of veggies. Yeah, that’s a lot of kale.
It’s for this reason that I started taking a multivitamin. I’m not pregnant or breastfeeding, but I was starting to feel run down and exhausted all the time (I wonder why? Two small children, part time work, moving house, Christmas. Yeah, no idea).
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I have now corresponded with other readers and your poor attempts to sanitise criticism of this article have been noticed.
You allow the most-bizarre conspiracy theorists and alt-med promoters to post grossly inaccurate commentary in articles about vaccination and yet, here, you shut down sound, science-based criticism of what appears to be misleading advice.
Why are you doing it? Why is there no expert opinion offered within the
article, given that the anecdotal information is potentially harmful? Is it just about the money?
You only need vitamins if you are deficient in something, which can be determined with a test at your GP or other medical professional. The supplement companies are pushing multivitamins onto us for pure money-making - it's the same with superfoods. Most unbiased research on superfoods found they were no better than regular fruits and vegetables, but cost a whole heap more! Watch The Checkout on ABC for some great insight into these things - they've had a couple of really great segments which explain things clearly and look at all the facts. Swisse had to change a label after they debunked their chlorophyll supplement (because what are we, plants?!).