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There are many benefits of taking vitamins with food. Modern fast food diets and grab foods may not provide all the vitamins required for the body. In this context, taking vitamins with food can help.

Vitamins are certainly not a source of energy for the body.But, vitamins play a great role in efficient release of energy form the foods consumed. Again, most foods that reaches our table has been grown in farms with large amount of pesticides. Usual cleaning of vegetables and fruits may not wash away all those pesticides thoroughly which has to be released out of the liver from the body. To efficiently detoxify our body, vitamins play a major role.

Vitamins helps better absorption of various nutrients from the diet. One example is Ascorbic acid which helps in the absorption of iron. Insufficient supply of Vitamin D causes ineffective utilization and absorption of Calcium in the body. A low serum concentration of 1,25 dihydroxy vitamin D can affect the absorption of calcium from the diet.

Even fruits and vegetables are plucked these days before they are ripe. It sharply decreases the nutrition content of the food stuffs as it is plucked unripe. Also large amount of chemicals are used to make it ripe and preserve the fruits and veggies fresh for longer duration. This causes additional entry of large amount of fungicides into our daily foods. Some of these compounds increase the need of certain B complex vitamins.

Modern day diet is highly relied on frozen, canned and ready made food stuffs. This type of processing reduces the vitamin content in the food stuff drastically compared to when those foods are cooked fresh. This way, most of our food stuffs fail to provide the vitamins in adequate amounts. So for better functioning of our body, a vitamin supplement is essential with food.

Some vitamins can be better used and recycled by the presence of other vitamins.
Vitamin E gets easily degraded in food stuffs on exposure to heat and light. Vitamin C can recycle such degraded Vitamin E and can be better used by the body.

Many vitamins works synergistic with other vitamin and minerals in its functions such as metabolism. To sum up, the benefits of taking vitamins with food are many.

References:
1.http://www.p ubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlere nder.fcgi?artid=442483
2.Essent ial Vitamin and Minerals
http://www.bodyandfitn ess.com/Beauty/Health&Beauty/h ealth.htm

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