Supplements – This is defined by the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary as a thing that is added to something else to improve or complete it.

Supplements are concentrates of nutrients from natural sources, added to the diet to improve or complete it.

Kinds of Supplements

In all metabolic and energy utilizing processes in the body certain unstable ions are released. These are known as free radicals. Free radicals are not only unstable, they are highly reactive and destructive; they are continuously searching for electrons to stabilize them.

They can attach themselves to cell membranes, organelles in the cells such as DNA. They can also get attached to carbohydrates, proteins and so on as they seek for electrons. They collect an electron from whatever they get attached to, destroying them as they do so. There are elements known as antioxidants whose responsibility it is to supply the missing electrons to the free radicals. These antioxidants come in form of supplements.

Secondly, all over the world farmlands have been over-farmed, leading to depletion in the nutrients in the earth. For example in a study carried out in America it was found out that the amount of ascorbic acid [Vitamin C] in oranges today is less than 50% of what it was 50 years ago. No matter how well and how balanced the diet may be, we can never get enough nutrients for the body’s daily needs. For this reason, a lot of supplements are concentrates of the nutrients that have become deficient in the ground. When such supplements are added to the meal to be eaten, value becomes added.

Nowadays, plants are grown with fertilizers and a lot of chemicals in the form of pesticides, herbicides and so on are used by farmers. These chemicals find their way into the leaves, fruits and seeds of the plants and eventually into the human system where they cause acidity and heavy metal poisoning

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