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Expensive urine Date published: 10/5/2008
IF YOU ARE taking The good news is you are making a significant contribution to the The bad news is that you are literally flushing those dollars down the toilet. Seriously. Most vitamins are water-soluble, and when you ingest more than your body can absorb, the vitamins you did not use will then be present in large amounts in your urine flowing swiftly down the drain. As with all things, we cannot look for black-and-white, this-or-that answers about meeting our nutritional needs. The devil is in the details. So, let me explain a little bit about what you don't need Our bodies need adequate vitamin C intake for our immune systems and skin, and we get it--scurvy went out of style shortly after pirates stopped wearing eye patches. We all need adequate iron, B12 and folate in order to fuel our bone marrow. However, what the multibillion-dollar "neutraceutical" industry does not want you to know is that we are able to take in all of the nutrients we need from a balanced diet. There is no medical evidence to suggest that mega-doses of any single vitamin are helpful. "A daily multivitamin is a great nutrition insurance policy. Some extra vitamin D may add an extra health boost." This is a quote from The Nutrition Source, the definitive Web site maintained by the Harvard School of Public Health. And with these two sentences, I would be likely able to stop writing this column, but I am hoping you want So, what vitamins should you take? The answer to the above question is likely to change six times before this is published because of ongoing research. What I can tell you is about recent research results. Vitamin E has failed, in several controlled trials, to prevent heart disease and does not prevent any kind
Date published: 10/5/2008
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