Which Kids Need Vitamin Supplements?

 

Given the reality of time-crunched parents, those well-rounded, home-cooked meals aren't always possible. That's why pediatricians may recommend a daily multivitamin or mineral supplement for:

 

• Kids who aren't eating regular, well-balanced meals made from fresh, whole foods

• Finicky eaters who simply aren't eating enough

• Kids with chronic medical conditions such as asthma or digestive problems, especially if they're taking medications (be sure to talk with your child's doctor first before starting a supplement if your child is on medication)

• Particularly active kids who play physically demanding sports

• Kids eating a lot of fast foods, convenience foods, and processed foods

• Kids on a vegetarian diet (they may need an iron supplement), a dairy-free diet (they may need a calcium supplement), or other restricted diet

• Kids who drink a lot of carbonated sodas, which can leach vitamins and minerals from their bodies

 

Top Six Vitamins and Minerals for Kids

 

In the alphabet soup of vitamins and minerals, a few stand out as critical for growing kids.

 

• Vitamin A promotes normal growth and development; tissue and bone repair; and healthy skin, eyes, and immune responses. Good sources include milk, cheese, eggs, and yellow-to-orange vegetables like carrots, yams, and squash.

• Vitamin Bs. The family of B vitamins -- B2, B3, B6, and B12 -- aid metabolism, energy production, and healthy circulatory and nervous systems. Good sources include meat, chicken, fish, nuts, eggs, milk, cheese, beans, and soybeans.

• Vitamin C promotes healthy muscles, connective tissue, and skin. Good sources include citrus fruit, strawberries, kiwi, tomatoes, and green vegetables like broccoli.

• Vitamin D promotes bone and tooth formation and helps the body absorb calcium. Good sources include milk and other fortified dairy products, egg yolks, and fish oil. The best source of vitamin D doesn't come from the diet -- it's sunlight.

• Calcium helps build strong bones as a child grows. Good sources include milk, cheese, yogurt, tofu, and calcium-fortified orange juice.

• Iron builds muscle and is essential to healthy red blood cells. Iron deficiency is a risk in adolescence, especially for girls once they begin to menstruate. Good sources include beef and other red meats, turkey, pork, spinach, beans, and prunes.

• Antioxideants Increasing levels of environmental pollution in our air, water and food may cause our bodies to use more nutrients than normal to detoxify and eliminate harmful substances.

 

The best nutritional supplements promote quick uptake by the body of the nutrients they possess. They do this by being in a form that can easily assimilate into the body so it can access the herb or nutrient and expose it to processes within the body that will ultimately lead to the nutrient taking part in cellular metabolism.

 

 

Why is an Isotonix® formula better than standard children's multivitamin?

 

Isotonix formulas are more effective than standard children's multivitamin formulas because they offer the best way to get the maximum delivery of vitamins and minerals into the bloodstream. Isotonix formulas are also the fastest and most effective way to receive multivitamins. The stomach has very little work to do because the pH and tonicity are carefully designed to allow the stomach to quickly release all the nutrients into the small intestine. With the Might-A-Mins Spectrum Isotonix Multivitamin formula, this process takes about five minutes, where a standard vitamin tablet can take up to four hours.

 

 

 

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