vitamin supplements?

pandyg180
pandyg180 Posts: 25 Member
edited November 25 in Health and Weight Loss
Just wondering if anyone takes multi vitamins in conjuction with the normal healthy foods they consume? I do eat a decent variety of fruits and vegetables but based on my nutrient stats in MFP I'm not hitting the goals for each. Most likely I'm not eating enough in my diet. Seems very difficult do achieve this with food alone. Please let me know your thoughts.

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  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    Make sure the entries your using from the database include all of the nutritional information. You will occasionally come across some that only have calories or calories + the macros

    Yes I take a multivitamin. I use it just to help fill in any gaps in my diet. I don't get anything expensive. I'm currently using vitafusion Women's gummies. I did have a favorite multivitamin called One Source Women's, but my local walmart stopped selling it. I really liked it because it was very similar to GNC's Women's Active multivitamin without the caffeine and only a quarter of the cost.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    I take a one a day :smiley:
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  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    edited October 2015
    I do! As you said, it's really difficult to get in all nutrients through food alone, so supplements are a great option for me. I chose a gummy multi-vitamin from VitaFusion so that it is always something to look forward to. It's pretty meticulous of me, but I also log in the calories of the vitamins (only 15 calories per serving, but still).
  • pandyg180
    pandyg180 Posts: 25 Member
    Awesome....thanks everyone!!
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Besides a simple multivitamins I remind young women of childbearing age to take some Folic Acid (pregnancy multis have these), and if you are in the upper hemisphere, take Vitamin D.
  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    Multi, Vitamin D, Iron, B Vitamins, Calcium/Magnesium/Zinc (not all together). Your doctor can run tests to find out if you're deficient.
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,706 Member
    I try to eat as healthy as I can, which I know is pretty healthy. I have done so all my life and still took a multi vitamin for about 20 years between my late 20's and late 40's. Then I stopped for two reasons: one, because the often miniscule amount of vitamins in a supplement really make no difference anyway and second: in my mid 40's a made a friend ( she is still my friend ) who is a chemist at Twin Labs and she told me that almost all supplements have synthetic vitamins, something she would not give her own family.
    So I followed suit and also stopped. I eat seasonal, but within that also conscious of my vitamin needs. So right now, I am eating a lot of beets to be ok for the cold season. I am not anemic, but sometimes in the low normal range. Of course here in Mexico it is not as extreme as elsewhere, but we still go to almost freezing and with homes not having any heating at all ( which means that inside it is as cold as outside ) I make sure I am healthy in regard to macros.....just as one example.
  • Gina2xoxo
    Gina2xoxo Posts: 27 Member
    Psychgrrl wrote: »
    Multi, Vitamin D, Iron, B Vitamins, Calcium/Magnesium/Zinc (not all together). Your doctor can run tests to find out if you're deficient.

    I take these and folic acid. I know a lot of people say you just Pee it out and/or it isn't in the right form for our bodies to use BUT I no longer listen to that. My DR ran tests and my vitamin D was on the low end. He didn't mention it but I desided to supplement because winter was coming. Just 30 days later I have the blood tests again (for thyroid regulation) and my vitamin D was high! I wasn't getting more sun. They told me to take it every other day instead.

    My point is that supplements can do what they say they will.
  • BettyBoles
    BettyBoles Posts: 68 Member
    Yes, supplements can help you get all the vitamins and nutrients in sufficient quality. It is essential for our body to get all the nutrients, read the label carefully that your supplements contains all the vitamins, calcium, iron and so on.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    Taking a one-daily vitamin cannot hurt one's health. At the worst it makes you have slightly expensive urine. I take one to make sure that my needs for essential vitamins and minerals are met daily regardless of what I eat, even though I make an effort to eat in a healthy manner. I also take a Vitamin D3 upon my rheumatologist's recommendation (as with most lupus patients, my VitD levels tend toward the very low).
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    edited October 2015
    Ang108 wrote: »
    I try to eat as healthy as I can, which I know is pretty healthy. I have done so all my life and still took a multi vitamin for about 20 years between my late 20's and late 40's. Then I stopped for two reasons: one, because the often miniscule amount of vitamins in a supplement really make no difference anyway and second: in my mid 40's a made a friend ( she is still my friend ) who is a chemist at Twin Labs and she told me that almost all supplements have synthetic vitamins, something she would not give her own family.
    So I followed suit and also stopped. I eat seasonal, but within that also conscious of my vitamin needs. So right now, I am eating a lot of beets to be ok for the cold season. I am not anemic, but sometimes in the low normal range. Of course here in Mexico it is not as extreme as elsewhere, but we still go to almost freezing and with homes not having any heating at all ( which means that inside it is as cold as outside ) I make sure I am healthy in regard to macros.....just as one example.

    Was the TwinLab chemist referring to products her company makes or the cheaper made consumer-grade supplements? I don't take a multivitamin because you're correct, they are generally based on the RDA which isn't enough for optimal health. I know my vitamin E isn't synthetic - that one's easy - The natural forms are usually labeled with the letter "d" (for example, d-gamma-tocopherol), whereas synthetic forms are labeled "dl" (for example, dl-alpha-tocopherol) - and now I am going to have to check the rest.
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