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Essential Guide for Your Body: Vitamins and Minerals [Infographic]

Meeting your required daily intake (RDI) of vitamins and minerals is essential to maintaining your current health and staying healthy later in life.  However, nearly the entire U.S. population is at risk for vitamin and mineral deficiency. Achieving your RDI doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, a eating a healthy, varied diet makes getting important vitamins and minerals, like vitamin A, B9, B12, C, D, E, calcium, magnesium, zinc and potassium, both simple and delicious.  

What should you be eating and why? NorthShore University HealthSystem has created an infographic that breaks down the health benefits of important vitamins and minerals, as well as includes a list of foods high in these vitamins.  Click on the image below to view our full infographic and then add these superfoods to your grocery list.