RDA REQUIREMENTS ARE HARD TO MEET! I AM SO UPSET!

weightlossguy01

I am very discouraged and upset by how incredibly hard it is to meet the RDA requirements in America for certain vitamins and minerals through food. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies have been linked to all sorts of diseases including cancer. In fact if you ate food to simply try to meet your vitamin and mineral deficiencies, nobody would be obese. It would completely solve this obesity crisis if more attention was brought to it. And I'm not talking about taking a multi-vitamin or eating "fortified" cereals to meet it. Fortified foods are just foods with vitamins sprinkled on them!

I AM UPSET AT FOOD MANUFACTURERS:
They do not list all the vitamins and minerals in foods they sell. Not even the so called healthy food companies! If the excuse is there isn't enough room on the package to list them all, they could still list them all on their websites but they don't! Some list sodium but don't list potassium. It becomes very difficult to keep track of anything! Many fortify their foods (sprinkle vitamins on them) and then claim they are high in vitamin C, D, A, etc. They should be required to list if the vitamin in the food or added in vitamin form. And if it's added in vitamin form they should list what type because certain types aren't absorbed at all properly! The gluconate version versus the chelated version of certain vitamins have been shown to absorb completely differently, some studies show not at all! If you're going to get it from a vitamin, do your research to make sure it's in the best form that actually gets absorbed and used!

I AM UPSET AT MYFITNESSPAL:
This website only tracks a few vitamins and minerals and COMPLETELY IGNORES the rest that we are supposed to meet for a healthy life. How can you call yourself a food tracking/weight loss and health website if you don't let people track these important vitamins and minerals! Nutritionists and doctors and the government even openly states you need these every day and yet everyone ignores the science! The sad reality is if MyFitnessPal did list all the vitamins and minerals, everyone would see how deficient they are in certain things and would start wondering what they can do to fix it and would start seeking out those healthier food alternatives.

Instead most people on here have food diaries that include Starbucks for lunch and a bag of chips for dinner to stay under 1000 calories and yes they will probably lose weight but they'll likely also get a huge vitamin deficiency and either get a bad disease, go bald, get worse eyesight, or go on a binge and gain it all back! I really believe the reason people gain all the weight back is because of massive vitamin deficiencies but that's another subject.


I AM JUST SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW by how difficult it is to track your daily RDA requirements through food, let alone meet them.


If we just had the information and the tools to accurately track it properly, we might all have a better fighting chance against obesity and disease!


RDA Requirements:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Reference_Intake

GasMasterFlash

I AM UPSET AT FOOD MANUFACTURERS:

You should stop eating. That'll show 'em.

I AM UPSET AT MYFITNESSPAL:

You should demand a refund.

cheesy_blasters

I can honestly say I have never seen anyone eating Starbucks and chips for a meal in order to stay under 1000 calories.

I find people here more informed and eat more consciously than most of the population.

Also, I wouldn't classify being bald as a bad disease. How would Jean-Luc Picard feel about that??

JayByrd107

In fact if you ate food to simply try to meet your vitamin and mineral deficiencies, nobody would be obese. It would completely solve this obesity crisis if more attention was brought to it.

Yeah- because vitamins equal weight loss.

I'm going to back away slowly now...

happyfeetrebel1

I don't even know how to reply to this..so I guess the only logical way would be just to tell you to take a multivitamin. It will help you meet your vitamin goals, and keep you just that bit much healthier.

Gloria67648

Or...you could find the fun in finding delicious ways to meet these requirements. Google super foods, nutrient dense foods. Try a new vegetable daily and different ways tp prepare them.

ShannonMpls

I am very discouraged and upset by how incredibly hard it is to meet the RDA requirements in America for certain vitamins and minerals through food.

Here's a brilliant idea:

Stop eating processed foods by these evil food manufacturers. They're irrelevant to me because much of what I eat doesn't have a label, and if it does, it has limited, pronounceable ingredients. I have no problem meeting my RDA of vitamins and minerals.

Make different choices. The end.