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mjoann <
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> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > mjoann <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Scorn B Woe wrote:
> >>
> >>>T wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Eat a normal diet and forego the supplements?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>This guy is one of those dorks who thinks because you get colored
> >>>urine, that the vitamins don't do any good.
> >>
> >>Or maybe he knows that a nonnatural supplement is nowhere near as
> >>beneficial as it would be naturally occurring in the correct proportions
> >>in real food?
> >>
> >>mjoann
> >>
> >
> >
> > While that may be true, in order to get the daily amount of even just
> > B-vitamins from your food, you'd have to eat an impossible amount of
> > food!
> >
> > Milligram per milligram, supplements are CHEAPER and more efficient than
> > food!
> >
> > C'mon folks! I know you know better than this!!!
>
> First of all, a high quality supplement is not going to be the cheap
> junk at the grocery store. Plus, regular produce is so cheap; carrots
> are hardly going to send you into bankruptcy! Secondly, no supplement is
> ever as high in quality as food; no kind of processed vitamin even in
> food is. Real, usually raw, organic food is the best "supplement" you
> can get. Healthy foods (if uncooked) will have the enzymes, etc. that
> help you utilize the vitamins and minerals, as well as the optimal
> ratios. The human body is designed to utilize vitamins and minerals in
> their natural state, not as derived using chemicals. Even if supplements
> do any good, the amount that your body absorbs isn't as high as the
> amount that's actually listed on the label.
>
> I should hope people know better, we all learned about the values of
> real food in elementary school. The only reasons to push supplements are
> to help those with serious deficiencies and mostly, to line the pockets
> of drug companies who love a sucker.
>
> mjoann
>
>
Look...
Here is a nice fact for you.
When it comes to important minerals and trace minerals, the carrots and
stuff don't "create" those. Same goes for several essential elements.
If they are not PRESENT in the soil, they are not going to be in the
food!
Our current farming practices use a lot of commercial fertilizers as the
soils that veggies are being grown in are sadly depleted!
If you can afford to buy all organic, fine! Go for it. That will help a
lot.
It's interesting that the vast majority of livestock feeds ARE
supplemented!
Heavily.
Read any feed tag. I have. I raise poultry and my own eggs, and some of
my own meat as well.
Veterinarians know the value of food "supplements" for animals. Only a
fool would not apply the same needs to humans!
You can get a lot of what you need from your food, but, as the original
OP stated, he is consuming a hypocaloric diet! There is no way in HELL
you can eat what you need to get the proper amount of micronutrients and
still maintain a hypocaloric diet!
And, athletes, due to the stress they put on their bodies, DO need extra
nutrients! Hence, supplementation...
--
Om.
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-*****." -Jack Nicholson
