DealDash Health: Vitamins

Taking vitamins can be a great way to boost your health and well-being. Even if you eat your fruits and veggies you still might be missing some vital nutrients in your diet.

You need vitamins and minerals in any diet, and research from many various sources suggest that they may help prevent cancer and heart disease, and other less dire health problems such as anemia. You might think that you are getting all of the vitamins that you need from your food if you are eating a healthy diet, but you might not be getting enough.

Here are some of the vitamins and minerals that you should be getting daily. Check your diet, and be sure to take a vitamin supplement if you feel you aren’t getting enough from your food.

Beta-Carotene – Beta-carotene is found in sweet potatoes, carrots, and red, yellow, and green peppers, in addition to other foods. This antioxidant is converted in the body to vitamin A and is important for healthy vision, a functioning immune system, and good skin. Be sure that you are adding in some healthy peppers into your diet such as on your pizza, in your stir fry, or even on your salad.

Calcium – Calcium is mostly found in dairy products like milk, yogurt, and cheese, but it can also be found in kale, and even sardines! Calcium helps to maintain healthy bones and prevent osteoporosis.

Folic Acid – Folic acid is important for adults, but especially important to women who are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant. Folic acid prevents neural tube defects such as spina bifida in babies, is found in fortified breakfast cereal, dark green vegetables, beans, citruses, bread, and pasta. That’s right, bring on the pasta, it’s got folic acid!

Iron – Iron is important to having healthy blood and preventing anemia. Liver and organ meats are high in iron, but you can also get iron from lean meats, seafood, nuts, and green, leafy vegetables.

There are many more important vitamins and minerals needed in a healthy diet. If you can’t maintain your vitamin intake by food alone then it’s time to look into a multi-vitamin. There are all different types of multivitamin that are meant for different stages of life such as children’s, adult’s, prenatal, senior, and more. All of these types of vitamins are sold at CVS. If you’re looking for a CVS gift card, DealDash is the place to go! DealDash frequently has CVS gift cards up for bid. Here is a link right here to go check out the auctions. Good luck and happy bidding everyone!