Losing weight and vitamin deficiency

dumb_blondes_rock

I thought this article was really neat. Show exactly which vitamins to take. Yes, eating healthy will give you vitamins you need, but not everyone can afford all organic food, therefore the "healthy" food we choose is greatly lacking the vitamins its supposed to have. Hope this is interesting to you too!

http://library.mothernature.com/l/preventions-healing-with-vitamins/overweight_999.html

dosesr4winners20

Thanks for the info! Nice read!

mynika

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Pockyjo

Thanks for the link. Very informative. I had been wondering about some supplements in my diet. Based on my nutrition break down with MFP I am low on iron. I'm unsure just how accurate it is but figure it couldn't hurt to get in a little extra iron via supplement.

Grokette

I thought this article was really neat. Show exactly which vitamins to take. Yes, eating healthy will give you vitamins you need, but not everyone can afford all organic food, therefore the "healthy" food we choose is greatly lacking the vitamins its supposed to have. Hope this is interesting to you too!

http://library.mothernature.com/l/preventions-healing-with-vitamins/overweight_999.html

If you are eating meat, fat, vegetables and some fruits - there is no need to supplement. Most of the supplementation recommendations come from the USDA telling us we need to consume so many grains and the nutrients from the grains are not absorbed so why eat them???

I haven't supplemented (except Vitamin D) since I dropped the dairy, grains and legumes and my blood work could not be better..............

dumb_blondes_rock

I thought this article was really neat. Show exactly which vitamins to take. Yes, eating healthy will give you vitamins you need, but not everyone can afford all organic food, therefore the "healthy" food we choose is greatly lacking the vitamins its supposed to have. Hope this is interesting to you too!

http://library.mothernature.com/l/preventions-healing-with-vitamins/overweight_999.html

If you are eating meat, fat, vegetables and some fruits - there is no need to supplement. Most of the supplementation recommendations come from the USDA telling us we need to consume so many grains and the nutrients from the grains are not absorbed so why eat them???

I haven't supplemented (except Vitamin D) since I dropped the dairy, grains and legumes and my blood work could not be better..............

That really good, I'm glad your bloodwork is well.....on the other hand though, so many problems are cause by how poor out food is (cancer, diabeties, etc)....our bodies were designed to fight off things of this sort, but the food is sooo unlike it was 100 years ago. Everything is genitically modified in some way, and a tomato today is NOT how a tomato was 100 years ago. Yes some vitamins you can get from fish or meat, but as for the produce part of it, the produce is so lacking in itself that a vitamin might be needed. Food matters is a great documentary talking about this subject

tigersword

Everything is genitically modified in some way, and a tomato today is NOT how a tomato was 100 years ago.

How do you know? How many tomatoes have you seen from 100 years ago compared to today? Do you know if they are the same species or not? There are plenty of heirloom tomato species that are exactly the same today as they were generations ago.

Also, humans have been genetically modifying food for hundreds of years. Genetics is a long, old subject, and Gregor Mendel actually cross bred pea plants to study genetic changes in the 1800's. How do you think there are so many different varieties and species of common fruits and vegetables?

8rules

I am sadly, forever the skeptic.

No clinical citation, all the market speak, shopping cart right at the top, opinions of MDs who may or may not do actual research but do have political positions that sound impressive.

Terms like "the research is clear" without any citation to said research.

Unsubstantiated claims "Fat makes you overweight"

"Some nutrition experts find" a loose term that could apply to anyone.

This article screams OPINION NOT FACT every step.

Having said that, it does not make it wrong, but it certainly does not make it credible.

We need to be skeptics, friends, this kind of misleading double speak is that stuff that lead to a fat nation in the first place.

dumb_blondes_rock

Everything is genitically modified in some way, and a tomato today is NOT how a tomato was 100 years ago.

How do you know? How many tomatoes have you seen from 100 years ago compared to today? Do you know if they are the same species or not? There are plenty of heirloom tomato species that are exactly the same today as they were generations ago.

Also, humans have been genetically modifying food for hundreds of years. Genetics is a long, old subject, and Gregor Mendel actually cross bred pea plants to study genetic changes in the 1800's. How do you think there are so many different varieties and species of common fruits and vegetables?

ok, you are right and i am wrong.....isn't that the point you are wanting me to say or feel? Well i dont' feel it, but i will tell it to you just to make you feel better. Humans have done a lot of effed up things over the years. Cross breeding plants isn't exactly as bad as completely altering their vitamin capacity, but if you want to use that point, then that's fine. All im saying is those of us. who can't afford organic veggies, should find other ways to intake our vitamins.....even if its just a multivitamin, but that website explained what vitamins do what.....which is what i liked. Sorry for liking something that not EVERYONE in the whole wide world agrees with. And yes we should be skeptics.....i dind't go out and buy all the pills they told me to, and start poppin them left and right. I just thought it was interesting. Will i talk to my doctor about it the next time I go? You betcha