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You can generally rely on major brand-name and store-brand multivitamins, our past tests have found. But what about the super-cheap multivitamins in close-out and dollar stores?
Multivitamins, How To Choose.
Seeded on Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:18 AM EDT
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I take one as a cheap "insurance policy" as recomended by The Harvard Nurses Study.
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#1 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:21 AM EDTIt’s probably not necessary if you eat a healthful diet, meaning plenty of fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products, and modest amounts of fish and low-fat meat and poultry.
I've met very few people who would meet that discription.
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#2 - Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:44 AM EDTIt’s probably not necessary if you eat a healthful diet, meaning plenty of fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and low-fat dairy products, and modest amounts of fish and low-fat meat and poultry.
I eat a whole lot of meats, fish and poultry, along with a modest amount of low fat fruits, veggies, legumes and grains. I'm guessing it might be necessary for me. I pretend to try to be healthy by taking Omega-3 and Centrum Cardio.
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#3 - Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:27 PM EDTYou may not need the omega-3s depending on the type and ammount of fish you eat. I'm not aware of any adverse effect from exceeding recommendation (up to 2 grams a day, which is really quite alot in supplement form) other than the extra calories from the fat which is only 9 calories per gram.
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It is usually some variation of fried fish, so that is the reason for the Omega-3.
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#4 - Sun Aug 22, 2010 9:55 AM EDTI usually buy the first one I find.
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#5 - Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:52 PM EDTI don't take vitamins. It's difficult to know how much is actually absorbed or if there are any incompatibilities with the nutrients, but everyone should do what they think is best.
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I usually buy the first one I find.
According to the article, not a bad plan at all. The main theme was, "Buy a big name store brand (Wally World or CVS, etc) and you'll be fine and save money.
everyone should do what they think is best.
The book "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy" is based on the Harvard Medical School Nurses Study, which is still ongoing but at the time involved over 121,000 subjects observed over 20 years. That's quite likely the largest and longest single human nutrition/health group study ever undertaken.
It's the reason that the USDA Food Pyramid changed. To become more in line with the pyramid published in the book. The book also stated that one should take a multi-vitamen as "a cheap insurance policy" against the general rigors of daily life like stress, pollution, meal skipping, etc.
I encounter all of those rigors daily. When I did the math, the multi I take is about 1-1/2 cents per tablet. So I take two a day, one morning and one afternoon. Because I'm worth 3 cents, by golly! And that probably covers some lack of absorbtion.
Although one may then argue that I could be "OD"-ing on some nutriment or other, I've not found that to be true in the last 10 years. At least not any that's shown up in regular bloodwork/urine smaples/physicals.
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I'm scared to ask, but what is a urine smaple? Is it some new kind of knock-off brand drink?
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It's the best damn pee-and-maple-flavored syrup ever poured on a stack of pancakes!
LOL! Spellcheck missed it so it must have been "urines maple" and then I bumped the odd space over somehow. Whatever. Shut up and eat your pancakes!
=p
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Urines. That reminds me of a funny story. My sister always mispronounces the word "yearn" so it always sounds like "urine". So mabe you really yearn for some maple pancakes? I know I don't yearn or urine for maple pancakes.
But maybe you can market a new bevarge with trace minerals in it that smells like pee and looks like it too and call the brand Smaple and it could have my brother's made up character Smapty as a kind of avatar.
Anyway. No one urines maple syrup. I hope.
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