How to Get the Recommended Daily Amount of Vitamins and Minerals in 4 Easy Steps

Micronutrients are essential to your overall health. Choosing food that is rich in both vitamins and minerals not only keeps your body free from potential problems in the future, but it also helps you to stay in optimal shape.  

While hectic schedules tend to make it so that you don’t get enough time to pick the healthiest food, this doesn’t always have to be the case. Here are a few ways you can

1. Make the switch to healthier options.

While hawker stalls are the cornerstone of a worker’s meals in Singapore, they are criminally high in oils, cholesterol, and sodium. Even a simple soup dish can eventually contribute to conditions such as hypertension over time, especially when taken every day.

Ideally, you should be the one preparing your own food, as you will never find any high-fiber, low-sodium dish in any hawker center at all. If you have to resort to eating out at the nearby hawker stalls, do so sparingly.

2. Add vitamins and supplements to your diet.

While you can’t solely rely on them to get the recommended daily amount of nutrients, they could help to give you a boost every now and then especially if you find yourself under a lot of stress.

You can start investing in your physical well-being with healthy snacks such as kale chips or yogurt that you can bring to work when you feel like munching on something, but they fruits, nuts, or even a protein bar.

3. Skip the coffee and energy drinks – drink tea and water instead.

While a cup of precious caffeine can make for an excellent pick-me-up in the morning, relying on it too much can have its own negative consequences, e.g. the “coffee jitters” after more than three cups. Tea may act much slower than coffee, but the effects stay longer.

When it comes to how many glasses of water you should drink a day, there is actually very little scientific evidence to back up that you need seven to eight. The good news is that your body has a built-in system of knowing when to drink water: thirst.

4. Establish a proper waking up routine.

Getting the recommended daily intake of vitamins and minerals doesn’t just end with eating habits – it goes all the way to your lifestyle choices. This is because not all the nutrients that you ingest are used up right away, and the excess nutrients are either stored in your fat cells or are disposed of by natural means.

Even a morning walk or getting a few minutes of sunshine will work wonders not just to your body but also your mind. While the first few days of waking up early to do this may be difficult at first, it get easier once you have made it a daily habit.