Vitamins and minerals – chart

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On balance it can be better to take a multivitamin/mineral so that you know that you are getting a good spread of vitamins and minerals in the right doses. However, sometimes you need extra for a variety of reasons and this chart helps you to understand what these main vitamins and minerals do in the [...]

Vitamins and minerals for kids

Gemma Mike Chania

Not only do children need minerals and vitamins to grow and develop physically, they also need them to feed their brains and perform well at school. In an ideal world children would get all the vitamins and minerals they need from their food, but we no longer live in that world. Food provides enough vitamins [...]

Vitamins – choosing and using

Patrick Holford

As many as 41 per cent of Britons obviously do believe they need vitamin and mineral supplements because they spend over £350 million a year on them. Here we look at how much to take, what to purchase, and when to take them. For some people a good multivitamin and multimineral provides sufficient intake.    [...]

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