“Vitamins and Minerals”
Natural Cures Food Nutrition Facts

Q- What about vitamin and minerals.

Do we get enough from our food or do we actually need to supplement?

A- It depends on where you are coming from and what culture. B- C- Again if you get variety in your diet there is probably no need for vitamin and mineral supplement.

Most people get enough variety in their diet so they don’t need a supplement but there are exceptions to that rule.

If you are pregnant or lactating or if there is some other need for vitamins and minerals then it is probably a good idea. You kind of need to go off your doctors recommendations.

Q- Would age be a factor?

A- Yes, there are quite a few areas where you may need a supplement. You know supplements can be expensive. Some may be dangerous. It depends on the kind of vitamins and minerals you are talking about.

That can get to be a problem if you are for some strange reason taking excessive amounts of let’s say vitamin D for example. I think the recommendation is 400 international units. Well there have been people that have taken many multiples of that like 25,000 international units of that and there are health consequences for doing that.

It comes down to someone not having a balanced background and information to fall back on and they just do it because they are naïve. You know it may start out as a doubling of the recommended daily allowance and they think, “well I’m not seeing any results so I will triple it.”

Some of the vitamin companies that manufacture these are no help because they will introduce products in the marketplace and where one capsule will deliver a mega dose of the product it can be confusing to people. You know if one is safe to take then why are they marketing those products in that amount in the first place?

It just gets to be like a power struggle even with the manufacturers of those products. People will think that if a little bit in a tablet is good then more will be better and we go back to that philosophy well how much can we get for our dollar then we start to think in terms of mega dose amounts.

There are very well documented cases of overdoses and the consequences of taking too much of one vitamin and minerals in the medical journals. It isn’t a mystery it is out there and you just have to be careful. Most supplements if you will look on the labels will tell you how much to take.

If you stick with a name brand like Herbalife and look at the labels it will always tell you what percent is applied for each one of the vitamins and minerals.

If you see 100% beside one of those vitamins or minerals then you know that taking that supplement will provide 100% for that particular vitamin or mineral. Or, if it says 150% or 500% then it is supplying 5 times more of the level than you really need. And all those levels are based on typical values in our society.

On an individual basis there may be a person who needs more than that or someone who might need even less than that. That’s when it becomes difficult to know if you are getting the right amount of nutrients. I keep going to just getting variety in your diet.

Q- Should children take some kind of supplement?

A- I would tend to think that if it is a school age child, you know school lunch programs are absolutely terrible, they have the vending machines with the pop and the food and non-nutritional snacks. You know like you were saying earlier if the parents are good role models then the kids are going to pick up on that.

You know every kid likes to run over to the McDonalds if they can.

Q- What about little children, toddlers with the Flintstone crave?

A- You know do they really need it? The same things apply from kids to toddlers to grownups. Just make sure they get the variety. You know often times with the baby foods like Gerber, the recommendations of what they eat are so closely monitored by the pediatricians and the company that manufacture the baby foods.

They are really under very strict guidelines and what nutrients are necessary for the toddlers to consume. Just be practical about it don’t go to any extremes. Just follow the guidelines of your pediatrician. I think it is just like adults if you get enough variety and use a little common sense in what you are feeding the kid or toddlers then I really don’t think there is a need for supplements.

Q- What about water, how much water should we consume?

A- You know that whole question has been kicked around a lot too. The people who were studying that were saying for a long time that we don’t get enough and we need to be consuming more than we do. Then there were some publications that were saying that too much water isn’t good for you either.

We don’t get as much water as we need. If you drink too much you are just going to eliminate it, so if you drink a lot of pop or whatever then you probably get ample water. I personally don’t consume any pop at all and I don’t drink that much milk so I have to make it a point to drink water.

As a general rule of thumb, your body will let you know when it is thirsty. If you ignore the urge to drink then you can get into trouble. Water level is the maker or breaker of whether or not you are going to have a healthy lifestyle because it is self-regulating, you know if you get thirsty then you drink and if you are not thirsty then you don’t drink.

So it is sort of self-regulating. So usually the amount of water you intake is in the acceptable range.

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