제 3 호 Take Care of Your Health for This Semester!
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Take Care of Your Health for This Semester!
the Vitamins that Supplement Our Health
by Ju - eun Yeon, Reporter
The new semester has started. Are you adjusting well? Maybe you are having a busy day. When the semester begins, it is usually hard to take care of the tired body while doing various activities such as daily tasks, exams, and TOEIC. These make it difficult to exercise. Therefore, I want to write about vitamins that serve as a health supplement for busy SMU students. What kind of vitamins can help SMU students?
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Types and Functions of Vitamins
Vitamins can be largely divided into water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins. Vitamins B and C are water soluble and vitamins A, D, E and K are fat-soluble. See the table below.
▲ Health Benefits of Vitamins
Some people take nutritional supplements instead of vitamin-containing foods when they cannot eat them. Now, let's find out what kind of vitamin-containing or expert-recommended nutritional supplements there are.
1. Multi Vitamin
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It is a minimal supplement that can compensate for the lack of nutrients for modern people.Although it is different depending on the products, various minerals, such as vitamin B, C, zinc, iron, and folic acid, can be taken as a pill.
2. Probiotics
Stomach’s health is getting worse due to irregular eating habits, late-night eating, dieting, and stress during the semester. It helps to improve the symptoms of irritable colon syndrome, and it is beneficial to intestinal health if consumed steadily.
3. Minerals
Multivitamins may contain minerals, but they may be taken separately if they are deemed insufficient. They serve to strengthen immunity and help absorb vitamins
4. Omega-3
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When you were young, have you heard that eating a lot of fish skin makes you smart? Omega-3, which is high in fish, helps keep the brain healthy and remove blood vessel waste. It is effective in reducing blood cholesterol levels and in controlling and weighting cholesterol levels in the body.
5. Lutein
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It is an eye nutrient. It works to prevent xerophthalmia*. Take lutein if you feel tired in your eyes because of your assignments. Usually, lutein is good to eat just before bedtime.
6. Coenzyme Q10
It is an antioxidant produced by the body that is effective in blocking active oxygen. Let's eat it in advance because production decreases after 20s.
7. Calcium
Calcium is a nutrient that makes up bones, but it also stabilizes muscles and nerves. Calcium’s intake is usually recommended during the evening.
Recommendation for SMU Students
When the semester begins, it is easy for students to eat and sleep irregularly due to their schoolwork and assignments.Further, increasing alcohol consumption is likely to lead to a lack of water-soluble vitamins that help the body's energy metabolism. In this situation, a good nutrient to recommend is B. Vitamin B5 helps relieve stress and B6 helps keep blood sugar levels at normal levels after food intake. B9 prevents malignant anemia and B12 (folic acid) prevents normal DNA from being transformed.It is also good to take vitamin D. Vitamin D is an essential nutrient for calcium metabolism, which keeps the body's bones strong.If you are suffering from chronic fatigue, vitamin D and magnesium are recommended.The nutrients’ effectiveness may differ for each individual, so please look at them only as a reference.
This article is to inform busy SMU students who do not have enough time to exercise about the effectiveness of vitamins. Since this is just a recommendation, I hope you can buy nutritional supplements that suit your taste after consulting with your doctor. Moreover, it is more important to take nutritional supplements consistently than to eat them a lot at a time. Too much nutrition can be poisonous, and cause such as diarrhea.Finally, it is good to take vitamins in parallel with exercise. This is because no matter how much nutrition you take, it is less effective than exercising. Although it will be hard to adjust to school just after the semester started, I hope you finish the semester with a healthy body.
*xerophthalmia: a disease caused by a lack of tears or excessive evaporation of tears.
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