Vitamins and Minerals?

[spurly]

What natural supplements would you suggest someone taking in order to keep their body healthy?

I take:

Vitamin E
Vitamin C
Selenium
One A Day Multiply Vitamins

What should I add or take away?

[janine]

My problem isn't suggesting more -- I have read stuff and tried stuff that I think was good.

My problem is in narrowing it all down to something manageable for meyself or to recommend to anyone else.  If we took a supplement of everything we're missing in the average American  diet we'd rattle when we walked.

Right now as a concession to a lot of stuff I probably need -- I try to drink the fresh juice of a carrot and and apple and some celery and whatever else takes my fancy, every day at work.  (Weekends are out the window at my house.)

I also take a vitamin/herb supplement with mostly the B-vitamins, and a few things that supposedly help keep you calm or at least "even", like St. John's Wort.

[spurly]

Thanks for your help.  I guess I just need to eat healthy and that would solve the problem for me.

[memmy]

Unfortunately with the nutrition taken out of our foods by processing, we don't get a whole lot of vitamins and minerals from that.  

I suggest a good source of natural vitamins gotten from whole foods, by finding a good reputable company that makes their own foodsources such as the organic vegetables is best.

I recommend Standard Process for that. That company grows all their own on their farms in Wisconsin.

There are probably other good companys as well, I just know alot about them.

Memmy

[janine]

We would not need supplements if we ate right, that  is true.

Assuming the foods available to you had all the vitamins and minerals in them that they were meant to have.

Assuming the way you cooked or processed the food to eat it did not destroy what little nutrition was left in it.

Assuming we didn't have so much garbage to fight off with our less-than-optimum food sources, all the pollutants and illnesses and stuff, plus our own indolence, compared to forebears who did a lot more physically.

Re: vitamins, I can recommend both Melaleuca and Amway vitamins as I knew them when I used to take them -- I loved them, they agreed with me and seemed to do me good.  The vegetable base the pills were made with was wonderful -- I hate a chalky horse pill of a vitamin.  Don't matter what brand, you know the type.  I'd taste them for hours and get heartburn as often as not.

And if it's all coated up with a nearly indestructable coating to avoid upsetting your stomach, how can you guarantee your intestines will have access to the ingredients in a thoroughly broken-down form you can absorb?

So research your One-A-Day and see if it really gets used.  Look for example at where the calcium comes from and Google the types used in vitamins so you can see if you're getting one you can use.  If it's just ground-up oyster shells, is that the one best for the human body, or does it merely let the manufacturer claim "Yup, we got calcium!"?

[spurly]

Oh no, now I have to research!

[janine]

Hee hee.

Notice the neat teacher-like way I dumped it back in your lap.

[Bon Voyage]

Creatine and Andro 

[spurly]

Creatine and Andro 

Not wanting to build muscle mass, just be healthy.

[memmy]

I have heard that what is mostly found in the sewage treatment plants that is not disolved is coated vitamins.

Think of all the people who have taken them and not even had anything good come from them at all, just clog up the treatment plants..

[marc]

Ugh.  Who's going through treated sewage?

[twd]

I assume that that would be from the untreated side of the plant, since the first thing the sewage flows through is a series of filters.

[spurly]

Disgusting, to say the least.

[memmy]

Yeah, they say it is a crappy job, but somebody has to do it. (Can I say that?) 

[kalen]

Unfortunately with the nutrition taken out of our foods by processing, we don't get a whole lot of vitamins and minerals from that.   

Processed foods aren't even really foods.  Not really.  They're fillers, substitutions for real nutrition that leave us hungry and wanting more.

I suggest just eating whole, natural foods that aren't processed.  I'm a believer in "all things in moderation", so of course I eat the occasional bag of potato chips or fast food sandwich, but by and large, I cook my own meals with fresh (sometimes frozen) veggies, make whole grain breads, etc.  It's amazing how much better you feel when you take care of your body in the first place.  God made an abundance of food for us to enjoy and when we do so, taking care of our bodies, it's such a blessing -- we're so much healthier and ready to take on the world with well-fed bodies.

Of course... all that doesn't mean I have the body of Ell McPherson.... I wonder what I'm doing wrong.  lol

[Bon Voyage]

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may die.

[memmy]

Of course... all that doesn't mean I have the body of Ell McPherson.... I wonder what I'm doing wrong.  lol

The only thing I can see is wishing you had her body........she already is in it! 

[janine]

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may die.

No "may"... some tomorrow, you will.

[marc]

Do you know something he doesn't?

[memmy]

 

[FFC]

What natural supplements would you suggest someone taking in order to keep their body healthy?

I take:

Vitamin E
Vitamin C
Selenium
One A Day Multiply Vitamins

What should I add or take away?

I like GNC's multi vitamins for men. I can feel the difference when I don't take them.  If you have trouble eating all the required fruit and vegetables that you should a day you can check your natural food store and get (I can't remember the name) food suppliments that contain all the fruits and vegetables that you need in a day. They can be expensive but they help lazy people like me who seem to neglect stuff like that. Who has the time to eat 20 servings of anything a day. 

[Nevertheless]

When counting servings remember to look at portion size.  A serving of fruit or vegetable is just 1/2 cup.  I don't eat just 1/2 cup of anything!

It amazes me the things people do to their veggies.  For me, most veggies taste their best when lightly steamed or grilled with maybe a little salt.  I like them to have some texture, not be cooked to mush.  And don't even get me started on green bean casserole!  Blech!

[janine]

Ahhh.. he beautiful greeeeeeen beeeeeean cassrole...

You start with fresh or fresh-frozen, long, crunchy grean beans.

You add crispy fried onions in a layer on top -- along with shredded cheese.

In layers from the bottom up, you alternate your other ingredients --

Sliced mushrooms, fresh if you like, or else "broiled in butter" ones from a can --

Finely diced purple onions, or whatever ones you like best, maybe a sweet onion --

Finely diced celery, bell peppers (variety colors is nice) --

Fresh parsley, fresh-ground black pepper, a little variety of whatever spices you like --

A can of concentrated fat-free cream soup -- it can be broccoli or chicken or celery or whatever you like if mushroom soup doesn't thrill you.  You don't need to add any salt to the dish if the soup isn't a reduced-sodium soup.

You cook it just long enough to integrate some flavors -- at about 350 until the liquids have been bubbling a little while.  You want your green beans to still have some life to them but you want the onions lightly cooked, a bit transparent.

Add another layer of those yummy fried onions for the last 5 or 10 minutes so they'll still be very crunchy.

Tell me that's nasty, go ahead.  I'll just eat your share.  :: :D ::

I like using a juicer.  If I don't have the time or appetite to eat a couple dozen fresh veggies & fruits, I can run them thru the machine and drink them.  Not bad over ice.

[spurly]

It amazes me the things people do to their veggies.  For me, most veggies taste their best when lightly steamed or grilled with maybe a little salt.  I like them to have some texture, not be cooked to mush.  And don't even get me started on green bean casserole!  Blech!

Green Bean Casserole is delicious!  I like veggies the way you mentioned too, however.

[twd]

Doesn't the song go,

    And they'll know we are Christians by our green bean casserole,
    And they'll know we are Christians by our beans.

[marc]

btw, I've been attending the Church of Christ for 35 years, and I have never, to the best of my knowledge, seen a green bean casserole.  I have no idea. 

[twd]

Plainly you've been attending heretical churches.

[Jimbob]

Yeah, because this is one of the things that Northern, Southern, and Southwestern churches all pretty much have in common.  You're pretty much surrounded, Marc.  I think maybe you've found the agenda for the next congregation meeting.

[marc]

The whole idea of doing this with green beans sounds heretical to me.  The only way to properly prepare them is to put them in a pot with a slab of fatback bacon, and maybe an onion.  They should be so greasy that chewing is unnecessary.

The only thing I can figure out is that you people are using some kind of bean other than half-runners, and you have to try to find a way to make pole beans or some such thing edible.  If that's what you're doing give it up.  It's impossible.

[Bon Voyage]

Just give me the bacon.  Green beans are of the devil.  Besides, I don't see any authorization for having a kitchen in the Holy Church Building anyhoo.

[marc]

You don't fix the beans at church; you fix them at home and bring them.

[spurly]

You just warm them up at church.

[Nevertheless]

A green bean is a terrible thing to waste -- or mistreat!

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