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Article #108: Why Might Your Children Need A Chewable Multiple Vitamin Supplement

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Unfortunately, refined, fast, and junk attacks and strokes. Other vitamins that
food is becoming easier and easier for are necessary for children are vitamins C
children to buy and consume. Vending and E. When these nutrients are given to
machines offer candy bars, sugar-filled children with asthma, they are able to
soft drinks, and snack foods loaded with breathe better and feel much better also.
fat and salt to children in both grade Both C and E keep asthmatic bronchial
schools and high schools. Many school tubes from constricting, resulting in
cafeterias also sell fast-food to wheezing less and breathing better.
children for lunch every day. It seems Children also require certain minerals
as if nutritionally lacking snacks and each day including calcium, chromium,
soft drinks are sure to be available iron, magnesium, manganese, selenium,
everywhere children go and gather. zinc, and phosphorus. However the
Parents who are determined to fight this majority of children do not get the
disturbing trend are seeking solutions recommended amounts of these vital
everywhere to help their children get minerals, as children in America drink
their needed nutrition. One answer they more carbonated soft drinks than milk and
are finding is supplemental green leafy vegetables are often absent
multivitamins, many of which are from teen diets. According to many
formulated especially for children. studies, today's children are in danger
There are superior multivitamins and of being part of an osteoporosis epidemic
exceptional immune boosting products that in the future as they enter late
actually taste great. Because there is adulthood. A lack of adequate calcium
so much variability in the food we also has immediate consequences for
prepare, even the most nutritionally children, as the number of fractures
vigilant parent cannot be absolutely among children and young adults has
certain as to what nutrients are in the increased greatly and pediatricians are
food they serve to their children. For seeing children with rickets, a bone
example, fat-soluble vitamins can disease caused by low levels of vitamin D
withstand normal cooking, but vitamins A that has been almost nonexistent since
and E are destroyed gradually as they are vitamin D was added to milk in the 1950s.
exposed to air. Similarly, water-soluble Zinc is another vital mineral for
vitamins including B1, B6, folic acid, children because it is critical for
and pantothenic acid are destroyed by normal growth and development and is
heat. Vitamin B2 is destroyed by light connected to children's ability to
and heat and vitamin C is destroyed by process information, pay attention, and
light and air. Some food preservatives remember and retain new information.
and preparation methods can destroy the Zinc has the ability to connect with our
vitamins in food. Even more, raw fruit immune systems by enhancing the body's
and vegetables that are grown in a way immune status, preventing infections from
that does not promote nutrient content establishing themselves in the body, and
can be lacking nutrients. There are also improving the immune system's ability to
those crazy food phases that all children rid itself of the infecting organism.
seem to go through. Although these There are other nutritional supplements
phases are generally harmless, there are that can keep children healthy such as
exceptions. Since most teachers believe 100% natural flavored children's immune
that nutrition and learning go hand in formula nutritional supplements that
hand, researchers decided to study contain zinc, vitamins B6, C, A, and
children to see if multivitamins can help elderberry extract which has been used as
children to become better students. a traditional medicine for many years to
After following 245 school-children aged treat colds and flu. Vitamin C provides
6 to 12 for three months and giving half immune protection by speeding up the
of the children a multivitamin, while healing of wounds. However, vitamin C is
giving the other half placebos, the a water-soluble vitamin that cannot be
children were tested. The results showed stored in the body, and therefore, must
that those children who were given the be replenished each day. When children
multivitamins had an increase in their are under increased stress, such as
nonverbal intelligence scores, which is having a cold or flu, vitamin C levels
closely associated with academic are depleted more rapidly. Vitamin B6,
performance. Many parents have a great which is also water-soluble, can only
deal of trouble getting their children to work in children's bodies for eight
take 100% natural flavored multivitamins hours. It strengthens the immune system
because they don't taste very appealing. by helping white blood cells make
The magnesium, iodine, copper, and iron antibodies. Vitamin A helps make
found in children's multivitamins are lysozymes, which are important
partly responsible for the terrible anti-infectious agents, and also
taste. To solve this problem some stimulates the thymus gland, and
manufacturers skim on the amounts of important immune organ. An immune formula
these minerals in their children's can be taken several ways. Some parents
formulas, while others cover up the bad give the formula when school starts or at
taste with massive amounts of sugar or other times when children are exposed to
artificial flavors. However, a few lots of germs. A child who suffers from
multivitamin makers have discovered how asthma or seasonal allergies and seems to
to offer a natural flavored, great get sick frequently may be provided with
tasting, children's multivitamin the immune formula every day, increasing
containing these vital minerals. The the dose when most needed. Others feel
best children's vitamins are prepared in as if they should only give their
a base of natural fruit, having very low children the immune formula when they
sugar content, while providing catch a cold or have the flu. No matter
antioxidants, other healthy how it's given, the 100% all natural
phytonutrients, with as little as four flavored immune boosting nutritional
calories a day. Because there are supplement can give your children
several vitamins and minerals that powerful protection against
children need to take each day, parents disease-causing germs that children are
should look for a multivitamin that exposed to every day. If you're looking
includes: biotin, folate, niacin, for individual vitamins and minerals or
pantothenic acid, vitamins B12, B1, A, looking for a great multiple vitamins,
B6, C, D, E, and K. Folate, one of the B visit an online vitamin store today for
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