Vitamins and minerals play an essential role in helping to sustain and improve human health during every stage of our lives.
They can prevent the onset of deficiency diseases such as rickets and illnesses such as the common cold. However, micronutrients can also play a substantial role in strengthening the immune system and organs to significantly reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which, according to the World Health Organization, amounted to 67% of worldwide deaths during 2012.1
This includes conditions such as type 2 diabetes (t2d), which resulted in 1.5 million deaths, and cardiovascular disease (CVD), which caused 17.5 million deaths in the same year.1 NCDs are on the rise and are expected to increase mortality to 52 million by 2030.1 They can develop as a result of certain lifestyle factors, inadequate diets and poor nutrition.
Therefore, it is vital that people are aware of those risks and the ways of preventing the early onset of these diseases.
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