- Multi-vitamins - 6 Updates
| John Weiss <jrweiss98155@comcast.net>: Oct 21 07:27PM -0700 > Recommendations? Ask your doctor if you even need them. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Oct 21 08:12PM -0700 On 10/21/2018 07:27 PM, John Weiss wrote: > On 10/21/2018 14:33, ggggg9271@gmail.com wrote: >> Recommendations? > Ask your doctor if you even need them. They always say that if you have a balanced diet you don't need them. How many us eat properly? Costco's vitamins are cheap insurance. -- Cheers, Bev I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Oct 21 08:12PM -0700 On 10/21/2018 07:27 PM, John Weiss wrote: > On 10/21/2018 14:33, ggggg9271@gmail.com wrote: >> Recommendations? > Ask your doctor if you even need them. Unless things have changed in the last couple of decades, doctors don't know any more about nutrition than anybody else. -- Cheers, Bev I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. |
| Nosmo King <nosmoking@mailinator.com>: Oct 22 08:49AM -0400 >Recommendations? Most people don't need multi-vitamins. If you feel you have an inadequate diet and are unwilling to change, buy the cheapest you can find. I used to take BJ's, Puritan, or Costco (Kirkland). |
| Michael Black <mblack@pubnix.net>: Oct 22 01:53PM -0400 On Sun, 21 Oct 2018, The Real Bev wrote: >> Ask your doctor if you even need them. > They always say that if you have a balanced diet you don't need them. How > many us eat properly? Costco's vitamins are cheap insurance. When I stopped eating meat, in 1979, I started buyimh vitamins. It was probably a good idea then, I was only 19. It does seem worth the price, "just in case'. I've kept it up, but there have been times when I didn't take them because I forget, and then when they run out, I don't rush out to buy them immediately. Most recently, I've bought a house brand from a Canadian drugstore chain that clearly is the same as a well known brand. They sell bottles of 300, and if you plan things right, you can buy when they are on sale, though that doesn't seem to happen here as much as a few years ago. And I notice the mix for "over 55" is down to 250 pills per large bottle, so I'm not srue I"m going to the "senior" mix, though oddly a glance shows some things in smaller amounts. If we had better sales, I'd just jump between whatever I had and whatever was on sale but that doesn't seem to happen much. I suspect in the right places one could buy 365 pills in a bottle, take care of it once a eary. Of course, you can spend a lot more. All those "natural" vitamins run up the cost, but likely don't add anything of substance. I do note that vitamnins and supplements in general have gone up in price a the drugstore chains. I used to be able to get 120 500mg Vitamin C for 2.99 every few months, now the sales don't seem to happen, and the price is up near ten dollars for the same amount. But that's another route to go, figure out what you are lacking, or think you lack, and just buy specific types. I have seen a well known brand of vitamins at a dollar store here, I'm not sure the price is really good, but probably no worse, the key being they sell them in smaller bottles, so at least you don't have to shell out as much at one time. The multivitamin was bottom end, so it covers the basics but leaves out the esoteric stuff that fancier mixes might include, but might not be so necessary. I guess the vitamin C was a good price, though "chewable" when I'd prefer to just swallow. Some supplements seem to help. If I get sick, I regert not buying garlic pills when they were on sale, that seems to help the recovery. I guess vitamin C helps too. But it's subjective. But yes, I don't reallly see much difference between taking a multivitamin and not taking it, but I probably eat healthier than when I was 19. Michael |
| John Weiss <jrweiss98155@comcast.net>: Oct 22 02:10PM -0700 On 10/21/2018 20:12, The Real Bev wrote: >> Ask your doctor if you even need them. > Unless things have changed in the last couple of decades, doctors don't > know any more about nutrition than anybody else. Then things have changed. My doctors are able to give me very specific recommendations on which vitamins I need to supplement. |
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