If, as the packet claims, multivitamins are supposed to be taken only as a supplement to a balanced diet (i.e. one containing the right proportion of carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins, mineral salts and fibre) why do they often provide 100% of your recommend daily allowance?
Monday, February 25, 2008
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Ah. I think I know the answer to this one. It was either a) because you crap about 99% immediately out again or b) that's why no one in the Western world on a halfway decent diet actually needs multivitamin pills.
Either way: you can spend your money better on more useful things.
Does Chinese takeaway and microwave meals count as a halfway decent diet?
Depends. You always eat your greens?
As a vegetarian* it's hard not to.
(*Okay, pescatarian. But I'm sure fish would eat me, given the chance. So it's self-defence really.)
Exemplary.
(Just wondering now, because I am sporting this silly alias nowadays, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of it, but would a pescatarian also eat turtle? Or frogs? And how do you feel about caviar? Technically they are fish, but they are rather defenseless fish and probably wouldn't eat even if they got the chance)
would a pescatarian also eat turtle? Or frogs?
Amphibians are a grey area. I think reptiles are best avoided, just in case.
probably wouldn't eat even if they got the chance
I'm not prepared to take the risk. There are lives at stake, damnit.
On a pescatarian diet you're probably getting more than your 100% RDA for mercury, too.
The 100% thing is a sales gimmickk. Like a previous poster pointed out, you piss most of it out.
However, if you take supplements you should do so in a regular and consistent fashion, especially with the high dosed pills. For certain vitamins that are not stored for very long, such a C, you're body will adapt to the high dosage by excreting the vitamin at a higher rate. But that means that if you suddenly stop taking the vitamin, your levels will crash until your body adapts to the new dosage.
Mercury... that's good for you, right?
Mercury... that's good for you, right?
Absolutely. How else would your body know what its temperature was?
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