Sally,
You're welcome!
Also, as far as I know, vitamin supplements are not regulated, so who
know what we are
really getting in them. I know people who buy every mega-vitamin
advertised on late night
tv, but they will eat 2 big Macs for dinner. And who knows how vitamins
interact with
our medications? I used to take Centrum and started getting pain in my
leg, (pre-TM). The
pain stopped when I stopped taking the Centrum. The same thing happened
to a friend at
the time. As the article stated, some of the men were taking the
multivitamins more than
one per day. If a little is good, a lot is NOT usually better.
Kevin
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Thanks for sharing that, Kevin.
I like to think of vitamin supplements as first aid; they can help you
get back on the path to health by helping to make up for a shortage,
but they aren't a permanent substitute for good nutrition.
One of the biggest problems is that taking too much of one
vitamin/mineral (in supplement form) can cause an imbalance with other
vitamins/minerals. If you eat too much of a certain /food /which
gives you more than you need of a given nutrient, your body generally
just adjusts to the 'overdose' by absorbing less. But if you get too
much of a certain vitamin or mineral /in supplements/, your body
doesn't usually make the adjustment and you can end up with an
imbalance, which over time, can cause problems.
Sally
