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Poppin Vitamins? Are They Necessary?
Vitamins are everywhere...From your dusty cupboard shelf, to your supermarket isle, to the dank old Fitness First gym bag you use every other day. Believe it, Vitamins are a massive industry with Americans alone spending around $20 billion annually on nutrition health suppliments and high protien foods. Are they necessary? Like any nutrition health suppliment we must try to consume vitamins only when our dietary intake is inadequate. Embleton P. (1998) states that in key research "In virtually all cases the researchers concluded that no single vitamin or combination of vitamins have any effect on performance". Even though marketing hype will tell you otherwise, listen to some advice from personal experience.
When training, nothing...And I mean nothing, replaces good nutritionally balanced diets. Richmond, W. (Nutrition & Weight Management, FIA, 2001) further cites that "The performance indicators measured in research tests vary widely and often include muscular strength, time to exhaustion, VO2 Max and submaximal tests. As a result there seems no significant increase in performance indicated with increasing vitamin intakes above recommended daily allowances." So, with that said, what is important to understand is that vitamins are necessary as a health nutrition suppliment when the dietary intake of an individual is inadequate, or when regular consistent training entails that vitamins are necessary along with a well balanced diet.
When training, nothing...And I mean nothing, replaces good nutritionally balanced diets. Richmond, W. (Nutrition & Weight Management, FIA, 2001) further cites that "The performance indicators measured in research tests vary widely and often include muscular strength, time to exhaustion, VO2 Max and submaximal tests. As a result there seems no significant increase in performance indicated with increasing vitamin intakes above recommended daily allowances." So, with that said, what is important to understand is that vitamins are necessary as a health nutrition suppliment when the dietary intake of an individual is inadequate, or when regular consistent training entails that vitamins are necessary along with a well balanced diet.
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