![]() ![]() Vitamins can also be classified as fat-soluble or water-soluble. Some, but not all, minerals are essential. ![]() Vitamins are essential, meaning we have to get them from our diet (or supplements). Vitamins can be broken down, but minerals are inorganic and cannot be broken into smaller chemical units. The difference between vitamins and minerals has to do with their chemical structure. You don't need much, just milligrams to micrograms a day, but if you don't get enough or the right kinds of vitamins and minerals, essential functions in the body cannot happen. Vitamins release energy from the food, develop red blood cells, help in blood clotting and help in maintaining healthy skin, eye, and hair.Vitamins and minerals are essential nutrients. Minerals help in bone and tooth formation, blood coagulation and muscle contraction.While all vitamins are needed for the body, all minerals are not needed.Minerals are not vulnerable to heat or chemical reactions or sunlight. Vitamins are easily destroyed while cooking due to heat or chemical agents.Minerals are divided into macro minerals and trace minerals. Vitamins can be water-soluble or fat-soluble.Minerals are inorganic and obtained from soil and water. Vitamins are organic compounds obtained from plants and animals.In 2005, researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine evaluated nineteen studies involving more than 136,000 people and found an increased risk of death associated with supplemental vitamin E. Those who took multivitamins were twice as likely to die from advanced prostate cancer. In 2007, researchers from the National Cancer Institute examined 11,000 men who did or didn't take multivitamins. In 2008, a review of all existing studies involving more than 230,000 people who did or did not receive supplemental antioxidants found that vitamins increased the risk of cancer and heart disease. They found that those receiving vitamin E had a 17 percent greater risk of prostate cancer. Two days later, on October 12, researchers from the Cleveland Clinic published the results of a study of 36,000 men who took vitamin E, selenium, both, or neither. They concluded, "Based on existing evidence, we see little justification for the general and widespread use of dietary supplements." On October 10, 2011, researchers from the University of Minnesota evaluated 39,000 older women and found that those who took supplemental multivitamins, magnesium, zinc, copper, and iron died at rates higher than those who didn't. The Atlantic published an excerpt from a book titled Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine that outlines several such studies. In fact, several studies have shown that vitamin pills may actually increase the risk of certain diseases like cancer. Study after study has shown that taking multivitamins does not help improve health. The scientific evidence for popular health supplements is well-documented here. On the other hand, minerals help in bone and tooth formation, blood coagulation, muscle contraction and also in keeping acid-alkaline balance in blood. Vitamins release energy from the food, develop red blood cells, help in blood clotting and help in maintaining healthy skin, eye, and hair. While vitamins are destructible, minerals are indestructible. Minerals on the other hand are not vulnerable to heat chemical reactions or sunlight. Therefore extra attention is needed while preparing food or storing it. Vitamins are easily destroyed while cooking due to heat or chemical agents. Some of the necessary minerals are calcium, magnesium, zinc, iodine, sodium, copper, chromium, iron, sulphur, manganese, potassium and phosphorus. While all vitamins (A, B, C, D, E and K) are needed for the body, all minerals are not needed. Trace minerals are needed by the body in small quantities while macro minerals are needed in large amounts. While water-soluble vitamins are not stored in the body and have to be taken with water, fat-soluble vitamins get dissolved in the body’s fat cells and are also stored in the body. Vitamins can be water soluble or fat-soluble. ![]() In particular, it is possible for one to buy mineral water or seltzer water, both of which have naturally-occurring minerals or added minerals. While vitamins are obtained from plants and animals, the body gets minerals from soil and water. Minerals have a much simpler chemical composition compared to vitamins. Vitamins are organic compounds while minerals are inorganic. ![]()
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