Supplements?

ernestkearney146
ernestkearney146 Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Should I be adding the multivitamin I take every morning for nutritional value?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,769 Member
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    Only you can answer that question. Honestly, I'm not trying to be snarky.

    Some people here are all about calories, not a lot else, because calories are the direct factor in weight gain, loss or maintenance. Nutrients at most affect body weight indirectly, via things like fatigue or appetite. Those people probably would consider logging vitamins meaningless extra work.

    Other people care lots about nutrition. MFP only tracks some vitamins and minerals, basically the ones that may appear on US nutrition labels. But people who care about tracking their micronutrients to that extent might log the parts of their multivitamin that they can enter into MFP.

    That's kind of a cartoon picture of extremes, but you get the idea: If you want to track your vitamins in one spot with your food, log your multivitamin. (You can enter it once, save it as an MFP "Meal" in your MFP data, then log it with one click in the future.) If you don't care very much about nutrition, why bother to enter it?

    Your call. Keep in mind that you're not stuck with this decision forever. You can start up one way, later change your mind and do the other thing going forward from there.

    Best wishes!

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