Your skin is helped by various factors: staying out of the sun, a good night’s sleep and of course eating the right foods to get the proper vitamins.

As a general rule, your body cannot manufacture the vitamins it needs from scratch. So you need to get them from the food you eat, or some other way. Vitamins are required by the body for its various biological processes. These include growth(Vitamin B6); mental alertness (Choline, Niacin); resistance to infection (Vitamin C and Vitamin E). They also act as catalysts in the body’s chemistry as well as precursors to vital body factors. This enables the body to use carbohydrates, fats and proteins.

Healthy skin can be obtained from eating right. We’ve got a lot of meal replacement options available, but you can also make some lifestyle changes too. Eating fruits and vegetables are an easy way of obtaining vitamins, but there are other options too. It’s all about doing your homework.

Phew!

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It’s always a good idea to know where your food comes from. Here’s a few fun facts about food, from our friends over at FarmFoodsFun.com [holy alliteration, Batman!]

Anyway, here’s a few things you may or may not know:

• Fast food restaurants use yellow, red, and orange because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.
• The average person can live about a month without eating any food, but can only live about a week without water.
• 97 per cent of caffeine must be removed from coffee for it to be labeled “decaffeinated.”
• One-third pound stalk of broccoli contains more vitamin C than 204 apples.

Find out more nutrition facts. If you’re using any delicious Nutribar products in your diet, we’ve also provided the nutritional info for each, such as our Chocolate Truffle bar.

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