Do you think we need more vitamins today due to the poor food?
Question:
http://www.dontforgettotakeyourvitamins.
Answers:
Published in the Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers measured the nutrient values of 13 foods for 39 different nutrients. They compared those values to measurements taken 50 years ago.
Today's foods were lower in every case. In other words, our food does not have the same amount of nutrients as did food 50 years ago.
It should be no surprise then that JAMA came out and said every adult in the US ought to take a multi-vitamin.
That doesn't even take into consideration that our diets are probably far worse than they were 50 years ago. Case in point...50 years ago a 6 1/2 ounce Coke was a treat. Today, a daily 32 ounces is often the starting point.
When I was a kid, no kid was eating anything as they walked home from school. Today, children are unwrapping god-knows-what to eat as soon as they step off the bus.
Good luck and be well.
Kelley
Yes but if the fast food/restaurant food is bad then just dont eat them...look for the ones that are good for you..or go home and cook
no i dont think so
i think we all need to farm our own food
so we know whats in it
I don't think that we need more of them necessarily, but more people taking them, they are a great way to stay healthy.
Leave packaged foods alone and you don't have to worry about vitamins.
Not neccesarily. I think we need to improve the choices we make regarding what we put in our mouths. Grow our own whenever possible and demand truly natural, non GMO pesticide free foods from our farmers and grocers.
We've lost so much nutrition because of modern farming practices and shipping requirements and we think we can just take a pill and we'll be allright. Just another money making ploy by big business. The absorbtion from a daily multi is 20% at best, so if you think about it, it's all just going down the drain in an hour or two when you pee it out.
Stay diligent and alert to what's really going on, God did not design our bodies to be fed fake food, including mega doses of artificial vitamins. Additional all natural supplementation on occasion is required at times during high stress, illness or sickness, but if you're just worried you're not getting enough because you eat fast food or skip meals, just do better for yourself and eat simply and healthfully (is that a word?). Don't spend your hard earned money on a vitamin shake, just throw some veggies in your blender and make up your own cocktail full of good, natural and whole vitamins.
Remember, we've not found all the nutrients in God's kingdom and probably never will. What you get in a multi is very limited but whole foods offer all we are designed to metabolize. It only takes and extra 10 minutes to do this, don't tell me you don't have time. You have time to check your email, stop at starbucks for coffee and get the dry cleaning, you have time to take care of yourself.
Yes, I think most Americans need to take a good multi-vitamins. Our daily diet do not meet the requirements that our bodies need to run properly. The foods that we eat are so processed and barely contain any vitamin and minerals that are needed. I take all organic multi-vitamin and mineral which is called Intramax. This multi-vitamin in a high potency liquid vitamin. The minerals and vitamins are derived from fruits and vegetables. This vitamin is also free of preservatives, additives, food coloring. The product also contains fruit and vegetable extracts. I also take a calcium orotate supplement which is called Intracal. Calcium orotate is a form of calcium which delivers the calcium straight to the cells.
also enzymes that processed foods lack. I take Altrum supplements: http://www.altrumonline.com/redirect.cgi...
In 1915, about 10,000 Americans died from a disease called Pellagra. This was well before the use of microwave ovens and the food processing and agriculture issues that lead to nutritional deficiencies today.
In other words, nutritional deficiency issues have been around for a long time.
This is why the FDA adds supplements to flour. They recognize that a "balanced diet" is a myth and people need help to get enough nutrition.
For example, in 1998 Folic Acid was added to enriched flour and the Spina Bifida rate in the US dropped 30%.
Incidentally, the supplements are not added to make up for the loss of nutrients during processing because enriched flour contains more of these B vitamins that the whole wheat berries do.
Other research has shown that the current RDA for Vitmain D is actually 1/20 of what we really should be getting in our daily diet. This has led major university researchers to call for the Vitamin D RDA to be increased from 200 IU to 4,000 IU.
There is also a call for the FDA to increase the amount of Folic Acid in flour because research shows that Spina Bifida rates can be improved by another 40% if we get the daily consumption to about 400mcg.
Today, basic research shows that the food supply provides even less nutrition that the same food grown only 20 years ago. On top of that the USDA has estimated that less than 1% of Americans come even close to eating the 9-12 daily servings of fruits and vegetables recommended by the Food Pyramid for adequate daily nutrition.
There is simply no data supporting the conclusion that enough nutrition can be supported through diet alone.
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/art...
It is very difficult to get all the nutrients you need from food alone. One of the reasons is that the soil in which the food is grown is often very deficient in the nutrition that plants, vegetables and animals need.
A multi-vitamin/mineral supplement every day would be beneficial.
More Questions & Answers...