Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time: 11 PM
Place: Kitchen
Illness, age, diet preferences, and some gender-related conditions may put you in a spot where you can’t get all the nutrients you need from food alone. Digestive illnesses, unfriendly drugs, injury, and chronic illness
Certain metabolic disorders and diseases of the digestive organs interfere with the normal digestion of food
and the absorption of nutrients. Some medicines may also interfere with normal digestion, meaning you need supplements to make up the difference. People who suffer from certain chronic diseases, who have suffered a major
injury, or who have just been through surgery may
need more nutrients than they can get from food. In these cases, a doctor may prescribe supplements to provide the hard-to-get vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients.
Vegetarians should also focus on supplementation to fill in nutritional gaps. Vitamin B12 is found only in food from animals, such as meat, milk, and eggs. Without these foods, vegans — vegetarians who don’t eat any foods of animal origin — almost certainly have to get their vitamin B12 from supplements or fortified foods.
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