EAT Kale no Multi-Vitamins! :D 8/28/13

garlic7girl

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/nutrients-are-better-on-a-plate-than-in-a-bottle/2013/08/13/369a0e44-f62a-11e2-aa2e-4088616498b4_story.html?wpisrc=nl_health

I have contemplated this idea for a couple of years now. I stopped taking multivitamins after much research on my own. I do not take them. i am suppose to take a D vitamin because I am extremely low but I have not started yet! I decided I would concentrate my efforts on eating a varied, and balanced diet: veggies and not just the same ones all the time, fruits (seasonal) and lean meats and beans and whole grains. My doctor told me I was healthy.

So, do you cop out of eating healthier by just 'taking' a vitamin? Do you give into the hype and do what the important folk in media say about supplements? Do you just simply want to take one for your own personal reasons?

Whichever I am challenging you today if you take a multivitamin or not examine why you are taking them #1. #2 decide if you need to vary your diet more and eat better.
Hey remember: what you put in your mouth has a great effect on your total body!

Let me know your thouhgts on this challenge!
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ELEANOR43da

I guess for me no matter which way I look at it I am still stuck with the Vitamin D as instructed under my specialists because I have low calcium and any other things out there I can't take. SSo he has me on 2000 IU's daily.

aakaakaak

Vitamins, or minerals, or pills in general are to correct a deficiency. If you can correct the deficiency with diet that's great. If not, use a pill. I've been using fish oil off and on for a light NSAID (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug) for the joint soreness I've been getting in my knees and glucosamine for possible arthritis related pain, but neither really did anything, so I'm not using them anymore. So, pretty much I just eat food. My veggies are primarily carrots and broccoli, but I don't have a problem with anything else.

NOTE: Kale is coming into season. Most of the greens are coming into season. If you have a southern taste in food then greens are freakin' phenomenal is both taste and nutritional value. If you want to go all out, mix in kale, savoy cabbage, mustard, turnip and collard greens with some thick bacon and the right seasonings. It takes a while to cook down, but man is it worth it.

WarriorCupcakeBlydnsr

Everyone always told me to take a multi vitamin, plus this vitamin, and that vitamin and I just can't seem to do it for more than a week or two and now that I'm taking three extra pills a day for the thyroid and the insulin resistance, and now having a "take this one at a different time than that one, but you can't take this with food, the other has to be taken with food, one has to be taken a 1/2 hour before eating, another 2 hours after you eat..." I don't think I could cope with trying to figure out which pill I can take with vitamins and which I can't or try to figure out where I can put another pill in that I won't forget to take it.

I'll keep working on getting the vitamins I need out of food! I love kale, and now have it almost every night during the week. I bought the 7 Super Foods Sweet Kale salad mix and each night at home I take a handfull out (I tossed the dressing packet and the dried cranberries and pepitos packet) and eat that with a little of my dressing while I'm cooking the rest of my supper. So I get kale, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and cabbage in my salad serving. I look for seasonal fruits and veggies too (partly to expand my options and partly to save money!!)

livedb

My 82 year old mother is still living on her own and driving. She has sworn by vitamins her whole life. She made me promise long ago that I would always take my vitamin! So I always do.
But I can see how just eating the right stuff could give you almost everything you need. Much like the food choices we have to make, sometimes healthy and easy do not go hand in hand.

verdemujer

Ok - I don't like vitamins much - most of them are way too high in one thing or the other. Some of those over-doses we can flush out if we drink enough fluids, some we can't - I just imagine that being stored in my fat and for some reason that bugs me. And some can cause issues. I have cold sores and I use to take L-lysine for them but slowly, I had to take more and more bigger doses to get the same effect. Then I realized that much more of it and I would be in the hospital with some organ issues. So I stopped taking that. But I also know I'm not really good at having a balanced diet with all the veggies I could use. I'm not sure our ancestors were either. Just think - we didn't have access to fresh veggies/fruit year around unless we moved across the country to a new climate. So, we ate things like liver and kidneys and and other body parts that most of us today would freak to think about eating. And we found ways to eat stuff that gave us supplements in a more natural form. Dried fruit or veggies or seaweed anyone? Right now - what I do, because I get really bad leg cramps sometimes - not always, is that at night, if it's been a hard exercise day, I will take my one multi-vitamin and one potassium/magnisum pill and sleep the night away. I figure those will get into my system much faster than eating some banana since I have to digest that first and break it down before I get to the needed potassium/magnisum. And by taking it at night, the whole thing has to stay in me all night so my body is going to use much more of all those things up before I pee them out. But I don't take it every day and I don't even take it more than once a week. I listen to my body to see if I'm going to need it. The funny thing is that I don't take D and calicum and it appears that those are just find for me. I also don't drink a lot of milk so I'm not sure why I'm good on that. My husband needs both calicum and D though. The one diet difference - I don't drink pop. He will drink soda. And he eats more salt because he eats more processed food than I do. For the body to sucessfully deal with sodium, it uses more the calicum just becuase that's how sodium and calicum work together.

garlic7girl

My husband needs both calcium and D though. The one diet difference - I don't drink pop. He will drink soda. And he eats more salt because he eats more processed food than I do. For the body to successfully deal with sodium, it uses more the calcium just because that's how sodium and calcium work together.

Now that is very interesting!

HardyGirl4Ever

I try to do both. Some books say that the vitamin pill will kill me. Others say that even if you eat a completely balanced diet, you will still miss some essentials, so you should take them. I normally do, but not on a cleanse.

HardyGirl4Ever

Great article by the way!

ajrich1

As a kid we took Flintstone vitamins everyday and I grew up well, but as an adult I got away from taking them. I now try to take a multi vitamin everyday because I know I do not get everything I need through eating, I also know even if I ate well I probably would still not get everything I need. I have notice a difference in my health since taking them on a regular basis so I am pro-vitamin. Like anything you have to find what works for you and I have tried a few different ones and the like the results I get from
the ones I am currently taking. For me they are a good investment.