Comments on: Do Vitamins Tablets Really Help Midlife Health & Fitness?

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 01 May 2008 07:21:40 +0000

HI Carolyn, thanks for your thoughts. I can’t confess to being an expert but I’m sure that we are able, unless we have a deficiency, at getting the right amount of nutrients for our daily requirements from organic natural sources. We are part of nature, or were once. We roamed seasonally gaining all that we needed from the natural resources around us. Why now do we need to rely on pills? who is kidding us? who convinced us?

The pharmaceutical industry just wants one thing, for everyone to take each of their pills a day, that’s what gets them up in the morning but I take your point about food supplements and differences their might be between the available drugs out there, however I do feel we should be honest with ourselves about our own source of quality fruit and veg before we look at non-natural sources first.

And of course, as we get older we may not be able to extract nutrients as effectively from nature as we could have done when we were younger as well.

What does anyone else think?

By: Carolyn, RN, MA

Carolyn, RN, MA — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:06:06 +0000

I disagree. Most people do not get enough nutrients from their diet. Do you realize how much you would have to eat in order to get the amount of nutrients that are a daily requirement? Now that the Dept of Agriculture is planning on irradiating all of our vegetables, where will the nutrition come from. I think you need to read more about nutrition from sources such as the Orthomolecular Society. Try the Health Ranger’s articles as well. You have been had by articles that the pharmaceutical industry just loves to promote.
I do agree with you that people should get rid of the processed food as well as incorporate exercise in their lives. I also believe vitamins can help…but they have to be the high quality vitamins…not those from the supermarket that are made of industrial toxic sludge. Natural food supplements are different from low quality supermarket garbage that the news media keeps using as evidence that vitamins are no good.

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Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:45:19 +0000

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