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Daily Vitamins?
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gingentleman
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Yes. Take a multi-vitamin like Centrum. Doesn't have to be a name brand. Also, take Echinacea every day for a month. It helps bolster your immune system and you need all the help you can get when you work with the public in such large numbers. Best of luck with the teaching gig.
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Echinacea tea is great. Add other stuff to it like ginger, garlic, gingko leaves (only a single nut if you use it them), star anise, ginseng, peppermint, and green tea leaves. Boil a pot of water, remove it from the stove, add everything, and steep for 10 minutes. Make a big batch that will last for several days and strain it. Sip on it throughout the day either hot or cold. Add some sugar and/or milk if you need it.
Is healthy eating out of fashion nowadays? I can see when bod ybuilders and sportsnuts need supplements, I can also understand if you use it to boost certain trace elements that are only contained in very specific foods that you might not eat because of diet reasons or because you are a vegetarian.
But this shouldn't be for a constant use, those pills are never a replacement for a proper nutrition.
But this shouldn't be for a constant use, those pills are never a replacement for a proper nutrition.
Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I will have to try Echinacea along with one of the vitamins mentioned. I would also like to point out to Corny, that I do eat health and work out, I am just around so many germs, I need some more help!
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Take Vitamin C, even when you're feeling well. Take two grams a day, one gram in the morning and one at night, preferably w/meals. If you can take three grams a day (one with each meal) that's even better. If it upsets your stomach, try the buffered kind, usually sold as Calcium Ascorbate. If you decide to stop taking it at some point, be sure to taper off gradually.
Good hand washing also makes a huge difference, especially if you're around young children. Try to avoid touching your face with your hands, especially if you haven't washed them. You might at first think you don't touch your face that much, but if you watch for it you may be surprised at how often you touch your nostrils, mouth, eyes or ears.
Good hand washing also makes a huge difference, especially if you're around young children. Try to avoid touching your face with your hands, especially if you haven't washed them. You might at first think you don't touch your face that much, but if you watch for it you may be surprised at how often you touch your nostrils, mouth, eyes or ears.
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Eating an orange is great. It's just a little impractical to get a large dose of Vitamin C that way. It would take about 20 oranges to achieve a two gram amount.
Which orange? Grown where? Shipped how? Stored how? Vitamin C is sensitive to heat, light and air. It gets oxidized by the O2 in our atmosphere. (Kind of off the subject but this is also why a lot of topical skin creams that contain Vitamin C as Ascorbic Acid don't do much. After about an hour on the skin, most of the vitamin's been oxidized.)
Fruits and vegetables are great, but in order to be sure that you're obtaining a specific amount of a certain vitamin or mineral, it's often necessary to use supplements (though I wish it weren't).
Which orange? Grown where? Shipped how? Stored how? Vitamin C is sensitive to heat, light and air. It gets oxidized by the O2 in our atmosphere. (Kind of off the subject but this is also why a lot of topical skin creams that contain Vitamin C as Ascorbic Acid don't do much. After about an hour on the skin, most of the vitamin's been oxidized.)
Fruits and vegetables are great, but in order to be sure that you're obtaining a specific amount of a certain vitamin or mineral, it's often necessary to use supplements (though I wish it weren't).
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Though I don't know why, it's kind of amusing that we're discussing Vitamin C on Christmas Eve.;-)
The point I was trying to make is that, unless people have grown the fruit or vegetables themselves, which most people don't do, it's impossible to know how nutrient rich (or poor) the food actually is.
One of the benefits of supplements -- at least, good ones -- is that they can be assayed and standardized. You mentioned that you work in a pharmacy or drug store. Here's a good example of this. You're probably aware that most people with hypothyroidism are treated with synthetically produced thyroid like Synthroid instead of the older thyroid that used to be harvested from pig glands. Part of the reason for this is due to the fact that more accurate dosing can be obtained that way.
The fact that something is excreted in urine or feces isn't really evidence of efficacy or benefit. I don't think it would be correct to say, for example, that because water and salts are excreted, then they must not be necessary to the human organism.
Mother Nature is great. But she's also rather dispassionate. And because something is natural does not necessarily mean that (a) it's good or (b) it can't be improved upon. The cholera bacillus is very natural, but I wouldn't want to have it. Sewage treatment is very unnatural, but I'm glad we do have it.
The point I was trying to make is that, unless people have grown the fruit or vegetables themselves, which most people don't do, it's impossible to know how nutrient rich (or poor) the food actually is.
One of the benefits of supplements -- at least, good ones -- is that they can be assayed and standardized. You mentioned that you work in a pharmacy or drug store. Here's a good example of this. You're probably aware that most people with hypothyroidism are treated with synthetically produced thyroid like Synthroid instead of the older thyroid that used to be harvested from pig glands. Part of the reason for this is due to the fact that more accurate dosing can be obtained that way.
The fact that something is excreted in urine or feces isn't really evidence of efficacy or benefit. I don't think it would be correct to say, for example, that because water and salts are excreted, then they must not be necessary to the human organism.
Mother Nature is great. But she's also rather dispassionate. And because something is natural does not necessarily mean that (a) it's good or (b) it can't be improved upon. The cholera bacillus is very natural, but I wouldn't want to have it. Sewage treatment is very unnatural, but I'm glad we do have it.
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There was an interesting artical in "Pharmacist's Letter" awhile about about multivitamins. Its a publication that does continuing education credits for pharmacists and i think cphts. At anyrate, they sited several studies showing that the source of the vitamin was less important thant he fact it was actually there. In their comparison of vitamins ranging from expensive Shaklee to cheap "One-a-Day" knock offs they all preformed similarly. Due to the fact that most people eat a fairly balanced ( balanced in the view of vitamins not fat) diet. Many foods we eat now are "enriched" meaning they add vitamins to them.
Whats important is that you take one that meets your needs. If your over 50 look one with less iron so it doesn't block you up. If you're a chick look one with more calcium and vitamin D so your bones to turn to dust. Or if you're on anti-coagulation therapy avoid one with vitamin K. I like One-A-Day vitamins because they tend to be smaller, and easier to handle. ( I personally gag on lager tablets)
Another interesting fact the article mentioned is that there have been very few studies done to support the use of multivitamins. All the big studies have been done on singular vitamins(Like vitamin A or vitamin K) or vitamin families (like B-vitamins as a group). I can still remember from my intern days an older pharmacist going on about how Roche is responsible for the current state of vitamin craziness . Oh he was a crazy ding bat, many pearls of wisdom did he instill in me.
Whats important is that you take one that meets your needs. If your over 50 look one with less iron so it doesn't block you up. If you're a chick look one with more calcium and vitamin D so your bones to turn to dust. Or if you're on anti-coagulation therapy avoid one with vitamin K. I like One-A-Day vitamins because they tend to be smaller, and easier to handle. ( I personally gag on lager tablets)
Another interesting fact the article mentioned is that there have been very few studies done to support the use of multivitamins. All the big studies have been done on singular vitamins(Like vitamin A or vitamin K) or vitamin families (like B-vitamins as a group). I can still remember from my intern days an older pharmacist going on about how Roche is responsible for the current state of vitamin craziness . Oh he was a crazy ding bat, many pearls of wisdom did he instill in me.
What is a proper meal/diet? 5-7 servings of each organic non-genetically modified fruits and vegetables a day perhaps?
Ask a group of 1000 nutritionists and doctors, how many of them eat at least 5-7 servings of fruits and vegetables every single day. How many will raise their hands? If there was, then they must not be working hard enough in their career due to focusing on such thing. And how many of them have 20 mins of cardio 5 times a week?
Truth is, this is something we can't avoid and have to live with. No one in the world can say supplements should replace proper nutrition. But no one can get sufficient nutrition or even get closer to it without supplementation and rely on diet ALONE. Its just one of those things that makes you think
"Practice makes perfect. But no one is perfect. So why should we practice? Should we just be idle and die?"
Ask a group of 1000 nutritionists and doctors, how many of them eat at least 5-7 servings of fruits and vegetables every single day. How many will raise their hands? If there was, then they must not be working hard enough in their career due to focusing on such thing. And how many of them have 20 mins of cardio 5 times a week?
Truth is, this is something we can't avoid and have to live with. No one in the world can say supplements should replace proper nutrition. But no one can get sufficient nutrition or even get closer to it without supplementation and rely on diet ALONE. Its just one of those things that makes you think
"Practice makes perfect. But no one is perfect. So why should we practice? Should we just be idle and die?"