Um. I started taking vitamins and other supplements without making any other changes and I felt a hell of a lot better. I can tell the difference when I stop. Doing so gave me the energy to start making other changes, like exercising, and taking fish oil and some other things helped get me off antidepressants. I'm a total believer.
Food only gives us all the nutrition we need if the food itself is as nutritous as it's supposed to be, and with modern intensive agricultural practices blah blah the food we grow is not as nutrient-filled as it used to be.
If your diet includes the occasional servings of sweetbread, liver and kidney, then you probably won't have much of a problem meeting your vitamin requirements. With a modern diet, YMMV.
suddenly thankful for the fondness for chicken livers that has caused much "ew!"-ing from friends and bystanders.
I'm not sure, ita. I think so -- if there's baking powder, but I could be wrong. Is salt involved with yeast rising? I thought it was sugar that did that? Now I don't know anything, but I still agree bon bon doesn't have to worry about her saltless fruitcake.
I've recently been nagged by my doctor to take calcium supplements, since skinny white women are prime candidates for osteoporosis.
I caught a minute of Dr. Andrew Weil on TV, last week. It might have been on Martha's show. I was channel hopping. He said something along the lines that recent studies have shown that women in the countries that have the highest osteoporosis rates take more calcium supplements (and/or higher doses -- I really only caught a minute) than women in countries with lower rates.
He recommended a smaller dose than those that have been touted (I think he said between 500 adn 700 mg/daily), and said nutritionists are trying to stress the importance of Vitamin D, -- because it helps your body put the calcium it does get to work.
What I decided from this minute of information is to continue getting my calcium from food.
Nutty, do you like broccoli? I'm pretty sure it's chock full of calcium goodness.
My mother the nutritionist (she has a lot of hats) disagrees. It is far better, she insists, to get your vitamins and minerals from food, far better. But better to get them from pills than not get them at all.
Yes. And from what I remember, when you get your nutrients from foods, you're generally getting them in conjunction with stuff that helps you make the most of them. I can't think of a specific example to save my life, but a lot of times, if food X has nutrient Y, it also has property Z, and what do you know! It turns out your body needs property Z to properly absorb nutrient Y.
I've never heard, "I made no changes in my diet or behavior but I started taking vitamins and my health is totally different!"
Talk to more Scientologists, bon bon. They're all about the vitamins, and that they help you to become clear, and turn into a superpower-wielding immortal.
However, I've now reached the conclusion that I'm going to have to seriously curtail my beer consumption, because it's definitely interfering with the whole weight loss process.
I'm doing this 12-week diet/exercise thing now where, in addition to exercising every day and making healthy choices about what and how much I'm eating, I'm not drinking any booze at all. It's only been two weeks but it's not quite as hard as I thought it might be. And I've been in situations (party, really nice restaurant, on my couch after long drive home from NC) where I always have a drink (or many). We'll see how I'm doing a couple more weeks into the program though...
Also, I think Matt badmouthed green beans a while back?
Bad man! Green beans taste not like ass, but in fact like deliciousness!
Heteros Next on Fundies’ Hit List
After its victory in last year’s fight over a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in Virginia, the Family Foundation of Virginia announced Thursday that it will push to change the state’s divorce laws to make it more difficult for parents to end their marriage.
The Family Foundation, which opposes abortion and promotes socially conservative values, said it will lobby the General Assembly this year to amend the state’s long-standing no-fault divorce law, which essentially allows a husband or wife to terminate a marriage without cause.
The foundation is advocating “mutual consent divorce” for couples with children, which would require a husband and wife to agree to divorce before a marriage can be legally terminated, except in certain instances, such as abuse or cruelty. The proposed legislation would not affect childless couples.
“Right now, one spouse can unilaterally end [the marriage], and not only is their spouse unable to stop the divorce, their abandonment does not preclude them from having custody of their child,” said Victoria Cobb, president of the Family Foundation. “When we send a message that one can up and leave their family and have no consequence, the Old Dominion is encouraging divorce.”
And if
that
passes, I suppose they'll next try to end no-fault divorce entirely....
The proposed legislation would not affect childless couples.
Because honestly, if you don't have kids, it's not a real marriage anyway.
the Old Dominion is encouraging divorce
I
really
hate language like this. It scares the crap out of me, and I frequently think people who think like this are a bigger threat to this country than terrorists.
While I do agree that a fair amount of vitamin-talk is cockamamie self-help in pill format, I've recently been nagged by my doctor to take calcium supplements, since skinny white women are prime candidates for osteoporosis. Now, I was told to take calcium supplements because I forgot to mention that, unlike most calcium-rich foods, I do eat ice cream regularly; but if I didn't care for ice cream, I'd probably consider taking pills. I just don't eat calcium-rich foods, often -- except for ice cream.
This is the type of thing that makes me hate all sweeping recommendations (vitamins, water, etc.). So much of it relies on how you eat. For example, if you're a vegetarian, you are probably getting enough water no matter how many glasses of it you drink. And, depending on your diet, I believe there are a variety of foods that might make you lose more calcium. Also, with osteoporosis, there is such a strong hereditary factor, that "white" is just not an adequate risk factor for me to necessarily take supplements.
