Vitamin Information Center

It’s summer time and produce is fresh and easy! What better time to stock up on nutrients after a cold winter with the beautiful array of fruits and veggies that flourish at this time of year. Here are 10 amazingly vitamin rich foods to include in your diet to ensure that you never run the risk of deficiencies, not to mention helping out your brain, heart, vision, joints and just about everything else by consuming them….

#1 - Dark Leafy Greens Dark green is the key with examples of amazingly vitamin rich, leafy vegetables including spinach, mustard greens, beetroot greens, turnip greens and kale as just a few. Adding these to a salad will give you high amounts of vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and carotenoids. Mustard greens themselves have an incredible array with vitamin A, C, E, and B6, folate, dietary fibre, tryptophan (no this is not the radioactive rock that can kill Superman!), manganese, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and copper all being found in this green. Continue Reading…

When it comes to considering what is the right kind of food to feed your cat there are a number of different choices you have available to you. You can either feed it the cheap commercial foods that come in packs or tins, or you can go the commercial organic cat food route, which can prove to be a little more expensive. But if you really want to feed your cat good wholesome food then why not prepare homemade cat food instead. Continue Reading…

Many people consider it unnecessary to take supplements. They believe that we get all the nutrition we need from our food. Maybe that used to be so. Our ancestors didn’t need nutritional supplements. The food they consumed was mostly fresh and unprocessed so, therefore, rich in vitamins, minerals and micronutrients. Continue Reading…

Vegetarian bodybuiling is not as difficult as millions of people tend to assume it is. In fact, it may well be easier for a vegetarian to remain committed to bodybuilding, as a real vegetarian diet takes a great deal of focus and disciple to stick to. The same applies to bodybuilding or any for of exercise regime. This will of course assist you when undertaking a workout in the gym.
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I’m always messing about with baits it’s so creative and fun; I even make my own flapjacks too! Making instant carp and catfish baits that really work can be very easy and simple without the need for too much technical know-how! Fishermen go on about ‘nutritional attraction baits’ versus ‘flavoured attractor baits’ versus ‘fake and plastic baits’ and so on and the difference in the prices of these baits can be enormous. But who cares what you use as long as it’s safe, does the fish no harm and really catches you fish! Here’s a few ‘alternative’ tit-bits on making baits that will catch you fish. Continue Reading…