The Top 3 Reasons to Take Vitamins
Keep Our Bodies in Good Working Order
Vitamins work hard to keep our bodies functioning properly and they help drive essential processes needed in our everyday lives. Each nutrient is on a mission to deliver health benefits that help you reach your wellness goals. Read more about these herbs for pain relief and inflammation.
Healthy Aging
Our cells experience wear and tear as time passes, but proper nutrition can slow down this process. Vitamins, like antioxidants, function to protect cells from environmental stressors, helping to support healthy aging.
Cover Your Nutritional Bases
We do our best to eat healthy, but some nutrients are hard to get from food alone. A multivitamin can ensure you meet your regular daily requirements for all the essential vitamins and minerals.
What Can Vitamins Do for You?
Support Immunity
Good nutrition makes for a durable immune system. Your immune system relies on what you put into your body, and certain nutrients are known for their immune-supporting benefits.
Vitamin C is considered one of the biggest immune supporters. It’s an antioxidant that protects your cells from damage caused by oxidative stress from free radicals, which are unstable molecules. Zinc is also critical for immune cell development and communication and studies indicate that it may promote immune health.2
Support a Healthy Metabolism
B-complex vitamins, like thiamin, riboflavin, folate, biotin, and vitamins B6 and B12 collaborate with other enzymes in your body to metabolize energy from protein, fats, and carbohydrates. Staying physically active and eating a healthy diet also help to maintain a healthy metabolism—factors that are important for healthy aging and your overall health.3
Maintain Strong Bones
You probably already know that calcium is critical for healthy bones. But did you know that calcium needs vitamin D to successfully fulfill its job of helping to build healthy bones?
The skin produces vitamin D following direct exposure to sunlight, but the necessary use of sunscreen, weak winter sunlight, and poor skin absorption all work against production of this vital nutrient. And though vitamin D is added to milk, many people don’t drink enough dairy products to benefit.4
Meeting Your Nutritional Needs
Committing to a new eating habit or lifestyle can feel rewarding, but you may unintentionally eliminate essential vitamins and minerals.Multivitamin supplements can cover these common nutritional needs. Read on to see which nutrients get weeded out of some of the most popular diets.
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5 responses to “We are the Knights who say *Nix”
I have no complaints about your server numbers or whether FreeBSD is a better OS under reliability. My main point was in the desktop market: Linux and all the Unix spin offs have a lot of work to do in order to grow their share here.
I would love it if the alternative to Dell or HP Windows PC wasn’t only a MacBook or iMac runnnig Mac OS X. But the reality is that Software Engineers build gray programme windows that do finite tasks and operations, stuff to get the job done. Mac OS X also employs User Interface developers to polish off the functions and make all the mental leaps for the users that the engineers see no problem in making you go through. And don’t forget that Mac OS X is built on the same founding Unix as the FreeBSD team builds upon. Those UI guys are the ones that make the OS so much fun and so easy to use. The open source reality of Linux is that the last guy to touch it is an engineer and not necessarily a graphics designer or a UI developer. Some one needs to polish Linux before it leaves the gate, Ubuntu had been the only distro to attempt this before the Asus took the Netbooks to CostCo and Best Buy. The EeePC really has been the only successful Linux computer to go to market and get some good press. The real shame is that the hard core Linux pushers keep turning their nose at it.
To quote one your cats:
“Your servers are all ACE!” Now get back to making something the rest of us can use!
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Sorry that just doesn’t hold, have you seen Vista and MS’ apps on Vista?! Every single one uses a different, baffling, interface. Menu’s are different, toolbars are different, palettes are different. The only thing follows the Windows “standard” is Notepad! And yet, Macs with their slick and clean interface are still the minority!
I definitely agree that choice can mean confusion, and the *nixes present you with GTK and Qt for starters plus a host of other toolkits to develop and baffle your users with. There’s long been a discussion about what’s better default-button-on-left or default-button-on-right in the GTK vs. Qt camps.
Hopefully groups like freedesktop.org will get issues like that straightened out and then *nix can be clean & slick too.
But ofcourse nothing stops Mac developers from really messing up the interface (the fear of Lord Jobs smiting them is the only thing right now, but you get one rebel who gets away with it and the flood-gates will open).
Ahem.. FreeBSD is not UNIX. In fact, the x86 OS X Leopard is actually certified Open Brand UNIX 03 while no flavour of BSD currently is. This is not an attempt to bash the BSDs out there but rather to point out that UNIX these days does != UNIX back in the 80s – early 90s. A lot has changed over the years out and MS won the popularity war much to the chagrin of UNIX supporters. Linux is getting pretty close to being a good os but it will never be ready for the desktop due to their communist orientation. Neither ATI nor Nvidia will be stupid enough to make public their latest GPU architectures so that the Linux commies can make open source drivers available for them and that will always mean that what ever Linux distro you put out today will only work properly with a 1 – 2 year old desktop since reverse engineering takes time.
The same can be said about FreeBSD, however they have a different aim as to what they want their OS to be. They’re not aiming for the desktop but rather for the server/embedded appliance etc market. Also, they’re not commies so Juniper Networks doesn’t have to share the code running on their super expensive routers 😉
All these minute differences makes for a rather moot argument from either side.
So far, only OS X has a serious chance of catching up with Windows and as it will grab more and MORE market share away from windows, and as SJ will eventually die one day, we can probably hope for an official OS X86 DVD for sale in the Apple store. Mark my words.
Adi
Well, Nvidia I believe publishes binary Linux drivers for their cards. The “pure” distros don’t include them but you can always get them yourself.
And I have to wonder why, if the BSD license is so much more permissive than the GPL license that Linux uses how come so many embedded systems are based on Linux?