Diet Or Supplements?

A lot of people get confused as to whether it's better to take a digestive health supplement, or to follow a specially regulated diet in order to get the nutrition they need. There are firm believers for each method, but the truth is, you really don't have to choose. In fact, it's better to use a combination of both methods to make sure that your body gets all the health-giving nutrition it needs.

The sad truth is, it is almost impossible to get all the vitamins and minerals you need every day with a regular diet. Changes in farming practices have greatly reduced the amount of vitamins and minerals found in fruits and vegetables, and even healthy versions of foods are often packed with harmful chemicals and preservatives. So even if you follow the healthiest diet in the world, you still are at risk for not getting all the nutrition you need. And to be honest, how many people actually have the discipline to follow through with the rigorous diet that would be needed to get even most of these nutrients on a daily basis? It's simply not feasible in today's world.

However, the flip side of that is that people can't think that they can rely on a multivitamin or digestive health supplement to give them all the nutrition they need, and then eat an unhealthy diet. Digestive health supplements can only work as much as you let them, and if you continue to eat an unhealthy or even simply nutritionally deficient diet while taking a digestive health supplement, chances are that you're not going to get the results you are hoping for.

So the answer is to use each method to support the other. Eating a healthy diet is a good idea for so many reasons; and eating a diet that is suited to your digestive health supplements can greatly maximize the potential benefits to your health that the supplement can provide. On the other hand, if there are certain nutrients that are simply impossible to provide for your body in your normal diet, then you may want to use a digestive health supplement to make sure that you don't end up with a vitamin or mineral deficiency.