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Quiet Heather wrote:Did they only look at vitamin A in the form of beta carotene or did they also look at other vitamin A sources?
Quiet Heather wrote:What is your opinion on prenatal vitamins?
Jaggu wrote:Jaggu wrote:Any word on B12 supplements for long term vegetarians that's been approved by Dr McD, Dr Jeff and Dr Essylstene?
Jeff,
This seems to have missed you radar screen
Scatobob, thanks, I just want to make sure that that is the case.
Burgess wrote:The quoted report (or report of a report) says: "...avoid taking large doses of supplements ...."
What constitutes "large"?
Because my diet is more limited than the regular McDougall diet, I take--every four days--a standard one-a-day tablet of vitamins and minerals, mostly at 100% of recommended daily allowance, but with 25 micrograms of B12 in each tablet.
My assumption is that I am getting the B12 I need (average of 6 micrograms per day) plus a low dose (1/4 of RDA per day, average) of everything else.
JeffN wrote:If you have never done the experiment, you might want to input a weeks worth of food into a nutritional analysis program (like CRON-O-Meter) and see how much you are really getting in.
Burgess wrote: This is all very rough.
Burgess wrote:In the list of minerals, I was under in calcium (22%) and selenium (14%). I suspect the standard calcium recommendation is inflated. I don't know about selenium.
Burgess wrote:
I see only three potential problems:
1. Lipids--but I don't know what they are. (A kind fat?)
2. Selenium.
3. B12 (but I already knew about this, hence my supplement)
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