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Vitamin/Mineral Supplements and Dieting
Vitamin & Mineral supplements are an interesting subject.
For Calcium, you can take it, and it may not do you any good, at all. Our metabolism is WAY complicated, and there are about 20 steps that may be needed to make the calcium you're ingesting, into calcium that your body can use. How many steps are needed depends on what exact kind of calcium we are taking in. Each step along the way, you body has to have the building blocks (enzymes, etc), to take that calcium to the next step. So just taking in Calcium may not do you any good at all, or it may give you just what you need -- IF your body can supply the several little steps to transform it, along the way. Otherwise, it is worthless. An easy answer to that problem, is to take your calcium (whatever), along with a meal which includes "complete protein", like non-fat milk, meat, etc. You don't need much of it. A recent large study found that taking Vitamin/Mineral supplements regularly, was actually shortening people's life spans. Hello! Study's author's suggested the culprit was too much vitamin B iirc, but more study is needed to be sure. I still take my vitamin/mineral supplement, but only once or twice each week. I always try to take it with a meal which includes "complete" protein. There is NO doubt whatsoever, that the pill pushers have oversold us on the value of these vitamin/mineral supplements, for most of us, in a first world country. Diet supplements are MUCH worse though - a total disgrace. |
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