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bulbadoof
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if I eat, say, 700g of broccoli in one day and don't eat it for the rest of the week, will that have the same effect as eating 100g each day, or will most of the nutrients go to waste?
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It depends on the nutrient. But for the most part, you are better off spacing it out. The human body can only process so much, for example, Vitamin C at one time. The rest of it you will pee out. (Hence VitC pills being called "expensive urine.") The fiber obviously won't store up, either--it'll go through your system and that's that.
The fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) might work a little differently. I am thinking here of carotenemia--how if you eat too many carrots repeatedly over a long period of time, your fingers will start to turn orange because your body is stashing the beta carotene.0 -
^^ditto0
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Space it out if you can...0
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cheshirecatastrophe wrote: »It depends on the nutrient. But for the most part, you are better off spacing it out. The human body can only process so much, for example, Vitamin C at one time. The rest of it you will pee out. (Hence VitC pills being called "expensive urine.") The fiber obviously won't store up, either--it'll go through your system and that's that.
The fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) might work a little differently. I am thinking here of carotenemia--how if you eat too many carrots repeatedly over a long period of time, your fingers will start to turn orange because your body is stashing the beta carotene.0
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