The coming of the New Year is a time when many of us put the brakes on the holiday eating, and, try to remedy it with healthy eating. But what exactly is healthy eating? A healthy diet contains many different types of foods to provide essential nutrients to the body. These nutrients include vitamins, minerals, and even antioxidants to name a few, as well as countless other components we may have yet to discover.
So what do these nutrients do? We are always told we need vitamins, but why? Let’s demystify the confusion by exploring what vitamins do in the body.
The following vitamins are known as “water-soluble” vitamins. They dissolve readily in water, and follow the flow of water into, as well as out of, our bodies. We drink and go to the washroom multiple times a day, so these vitamins don’t tend to linger. It is not easy to “store” them in our bodies for future use, so we must be regularly eating more vitamins to make up for our losses. This is why binging briefly on healthy foods doesn’t work.
