Vitamins work in case that they are along with minerals.

When it is mentioned about the foodstuff, required by the body, vitamins come to mind first. However, minerals are also indispensable as much as how necessary vitamins are. Furthermore, in respect to Dr. Earl Mindell, who describes minerals as “Cinderella of foods”, vitamins are not helpful unless minerals are present, no matter how much important they are.

Mindell emphasizes that, most famous seven minerals are calcium, iodine, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, selenium and zinc, but in fact, eighteen minerals are needed for regular functions of the body. Mindell claims that, vitamins cannot function without minerals' help and “our body needs the synergy of the two,” says (Kaynak Sağlık vakfı).

Minerals

Calcium

•  Protects bones and teeth, and decreases the risk of loss and break of bones

•  Helps to decrease the risk of intestine cancer

•  Helps to recover insomnia

•  Helps to nervous system

Its natural resources are milk and milk products, all cheeses, soybean, sardine, peanut, walnut, sunflower seeds, dry bean, dark cabbage, broccoli, green fruits and vegetables

Iron

• Helps to growth
• Increases the resistance to illnesses
• Prevents from fatigue
• Recovers anemia relating to iron insufficiency and prevents from it
• Its natural resources are liver, red meat, dried peach, semolina, the yellow part of egg, oyster, nuts, bean, grape molasses, asparagus, oatmeal

Magnesium

•  Helps to burn fats and consume energy

•  Helps to struggle to depression

•  Provides more healthy cardiovascular system and helps to prevent from heart attack

•  Keeps teeth healthy

•  Works as a natural tranquilizer along with calcium

•  Decreases pre menstruation syndrome (PMS)

•  Its natural resources are no milled cereals, fig, almond, hazelnut, dark green vegetables, banana

Potassium

• Helps our mental actions by sending oxygen to the brain
• Helps to discharge wastes of the body
• Helps to decrease blood pressure
• Useful for allergy cure

Its natural resources are citrus fruits, tomato, all green leaf vegetables, mint leaves, sunflower seed, banana, potato

Selenium

• Prevents from various cancers
• Helps to decrease the risk of heart illnesses and paralysis
• Helpful for protection of young flexible tissues
• Moderate getting hot and menopause discomforts
• Helpful for curing and preventing from dandruff
• Increases sperm number and efficiency of men
• Its natural resources are sea food, kidney, liver, wheat seed, whole meal, tuna fish, onion, tomato, broccoli, garlic

Zinc

•  Quickens the recovering of internal and external injuries

•  Dissipate the white spots on nails

•  Helpful for preventing from prostate discomforts

•  Supports growth and mental awareness

•  Helpful for curing mental discomforts

•  Helpful for reducing time and violence of cold

•  Its natural resources are meat, lever, sea food (especially oyster), wheat seed, brewers yeast, squash seed, egg, powder mustard

Manganese

•  Helpful for recovering fatigue

•  Helps muscle reflexes

•  Helpful for preventing from osteoporosis

•  Improves memory

•  Decreases nervous sensitivity

•  Its natural resources are cereal, hazelnut, green leaf vegetables, pea, beet

Spectacular facts about vitamins

• A cigarette diminishes 25-100 milligrams of vitamin C
• The people, who live in the cities, which have high air pollution, get less vitamin D, because air pollution absorbs ultraviolet rays come from the sun
• Having alcohol more than full of a wineglass a day causes to be consumed vitamins B1 and B6 and folic acid
• Kids need one and half or two times more protein than adults do
• According to the cancer researchers, vitamins C and E and chemicals obtained from cabbage, Brussels sprout and other vegetables hinder carcinogen matters
• Vitamin B1 prevents from flight and sea travel discomforts
• Red radish, onion, garlic and leek contain all natural antibiotics, which are called as “allicin”, and diminish hazardous illnesses in long term
• Aspirin increases vitamin C secretion rate three times
• Using vitamin E complementary reduces heart illnesses risk
• Regular daily using of vitamin C complementary reduces cataract risk

Vitamin Alphabet

Folic acid (Folate)

• Reduces heart illness risk
• Hinders some defects, which may be formed during birth, in babies
• Prevents from intestine parasites and food poisoning
• Provides more healthy skin appearance
• Works as pain killer
• Reduces the effect of anemia
• Its natural resources are green leaf vegetables, carrot, liver, the yellow part of egg, apricot, squash, bean, dark rye flavor

Inositol

• helps to reduce cholesterol levels
• helpful for preventing hair losses
• helpful for preventing eczema
• provides tranquilizer effect

its natural resources are liver, brewers yeast, grapefruit, dried grape, wheat seed, grape molasses, peanut, cabbage

Vitamin C

•  recovers burns, injuries and bleeding gingiva

•  increases the effect of the medicines used for ureter infections

•  quickens recovery after operation

•  helps to prevent many viral and bacterial infections and to strengthen immunity system in general

•  helps to resist to that carcinogen substances form

•  reduces blood coagulation in the vessels

•  helps to cure and prevent from cold

•  extends life time by keeping protein cells together

•  its natural resources are citrus fruits, fruits, green leaf vegetables, tomato, cauliflower, potato and peppers

Vitamin D

•  employs calcium and phosphorus for strong bones and teeth

•  prevents cold when it is had along with vitamins A and C

•  helps to cure conjunctivitis

•  its natural resources are fish liver, sardine, herring, salmon, tuna fish, milk and milk products, sunlight

Vitamin E

•  provides a young appearance to you by hindering cell aging

•  provides oxygen for giving more strength power

•  protects lungs from air pollution by working together with vitamin A

•  helps to prevent various cancers

•  prevents and solves blood coagulation

•  quickens recovery of burns

•  reduces blood pressure

•  helps to prevent miscarrying

•  reduces the risk of heart illnesses and paralyses

•  its natural resources are vegetal oils, hazelnut, Brussels sprout, green leaf vegetables, spinach, whole meal, cereal, egg, wheat seed, soybean


Which vitamin do people need according to their professions?

•  Dancers: Calcium-magnesium complex (along with soy isoflavonoids) 2 tablets at mornings and evenings, daily 30-100 milligrams coenzyme -Q10, daily 1000 mcg octocosanol are best complementary.

•  Athletes: You need more complex carbon hydrates and proteins if you deal with active sports. Fresh or ready fruit juices are best, quick energy drinks to satisfy thirsty for water loss. You may have 50 milligrams B complex, 30-100 milligrams coenzyme-Q10 a day and 1000 mcg octocosanol three times a day as complementary.

•  Runners: You should have more frequently the antioxidants such as seed, peanut, vitamin C and E, and selenium. In addition, you should 50 milligrams B complex at mornings and evenings.

People, who reduce their interest in consuming alcohol:

A research, which was done in Texas University , discovered that, when alcoholic test animals were fed with food, which had been enriched with nutrients and vitamins, they lost their interest in alcohol in a short time. Vitamins of A,D,E,C and all B vitamins – especially B12,B6 and B1- and a high protein diet along with calcium, magnesium, colin, inocitol, niacingive give best results to defeat or even reduce alcohol habit.

Sex and Vitamins

Zinc is an important sex food especially for men. A relation between sex and vitamin E is being established. The highest zinc level in a man's body exists in prostate and insufficiency of this mineral may cause prostate discomfort. If you like to increase your libido and make your sexual life more alive, add some foods such as carrot, cinnamon, quince, pine nut, oyster, asparagus, cereal, wheat seed to your diet.