Comments on: The Truth About Vitamins

By: thisismyspamemail

thisismyspamemail — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:05:00 +0000

People are failing in health because of all the boxed foods and additives. People do not need to be told what to eat. Corporations need to be told what they need to stop sneaking into their partial food stuff they pass off as healthy and safe.

By: thisismyspamemail

thisismyspamemail — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:03:00 +0000

I disagree. Many Americans are malnourished whether they are over weight or not. Many do not get the proper amount of vitamins. The typical American diet is not sufficient, it is actually harmful to a person’s health. Vitamin therapy is a good thing, it really does work for many things and vitamins are NOT dangerous. Just check with the poison control department in your area…then every area in every state in America. NO ONE has died from overdosing on vitamins. But… many have died from the use of pharmaceuticals. More than a hundred thousand per year as a matter of fact. If you do not believe me…check. http://www.doctoryourself.com

By: Christine Croswell

Christine Croswell — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:37:00 +0000

To add….to tone our GI tracts we may use herbal tinctures, which are food.

By: bdh bdh

bdh bdh — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:33:00 +0000

go back to middle school…esp. science class

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:00:00 +0000

I completely agree! On top of dragging it out, the documentary left out so much relevant information that I almost think it was actually in favor of vitamin pills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:46:00 +0000

There is, in fact, no molecular difference between the vitamins added to Total cereal and those in pill form. There is, however, a physical difference – the stuff added to Total is distributed throughout bulky food while the pill form is not. This is the only difference. Same goes for most bread. All natural vitamins are mostly lost during processing of breads and cereals – they are then added along the way – what is added is exactly the same as what is added to pills. The difference is that when vitamins are added to bread and cereal – it is easy for the small intestine to absorb the vitamins – since they are spread-out over the entire volume of the bulky food – instead concentrated into a pill that puts undue stress on our system – and often at the expense of absorbing other vitamins that are naturally found in food – a loss that we can’t exactly afford these days. The solution is not to take more vitamin pills, but to eat more food that naturally contains vitamins – this starts with examining our soils – most of which has been depleted of vitamins by the process of growing one, large monocrop.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:38:00 +0000

you mean species

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:25:00 +0000

Hi, I am a scientist. I would like to mention a few things. First of all, how many people commenting here have actually read a basic nutrition textbook? I’m guessing not many. If you had read a basic nutrition textbook, then you would know just how easy it is to meet and exceed all of the suggested daily intake values for the vitamins and minerals. All one has to do is eat a standard American diet consisting of cereal for breakfast, some fruit, a basic lunch and a standard dinner – and chances are all of the RDI’s for all of the vitamins and minerals will have easily been met. The only people who should really be taking vitamin supplements are those who have intestinal/GI disorders that interfere with nutrient absorption. That’s the easy stuff. Now lets get into the more complicated material. If you have read a basic college nutrition textbook that has been published in the last 10-20 years then you should also know some additional things about vitamin pills. Vitamin pills are completely different than eating the vitamins naturally from food. In food, it is impossible to reach toxic or harmful levels of vitamin absorption because the vitamins are distributed throughout the bulky food. That’s what our digestive tracts desire. On the other hand, a vitamin pill is a highly concentrated dose of a particular vitamin (which, as Paul Salmas correctly intuined below, are manufactured using toxic chemicals including benzene molecules that are known to cause leukemia) – our small intestine is not designed to absorb highly concentrated doses – so these pills over-work our metabolism processes – such that other natural vitamin metabolism/absorption is interfered with. In fact, it is now known that taking vitamin pills above the RDI can interfere with the absorption of other vitamins that a person would normally absorb from food. This is bad – since those other vitamins – the ones NOT included in the pill – are usually only available at limited amounts from food. Then there’s the whole issue about how Linus Pauling’s wife (very unfortunately) died of stomach cancer. She had been taking high doses of vitamin C supplements long before she developed stomach cancer. I think that was Pauling’s first inclination that he might have, in fact, been wrong – and he was. I could continue here explaining in more detail exactly why it is a complete waste to consume vitamin pills when a person is capable of easily absorbing all the necessary RDI’s from food naturally, but if write too much nobody will read my comment! So I will stop here – but I welcome any questions if people would like more information! In the meantime – get that old nutrition textbook out again – and look at the tables in the back that list all of the vitamin and mineral contents of common foods – compare that to what you eat in a day – you will see how easy it is to get all the vitamins you need naturally from food – the way your body was designed to work!

By: Butz

Butz — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:16:00 +0000

The information explained in this hour long video could have easily been condensed to 10-15 minutes. They really dragged this one out.

By: Rolands Jaunzems

Rolands Jaunzems — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:42:00 +0000

If you would have studied toxicology , you would understand how lame your thought is.

By: melissa

melissa — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:35:00 +0000

It would be interesting to see a side-by-side comparison of the toxic side effects reported of prescription drugs compared to those of vitamins. I think I’ll take my chances with my vitamins, thank you. I have a feeling there are far fewer reports on the long history of all vitamin c supplements than on the relatively new drug Tamiflu for example. Just a thought.

By: B-Rich

B-Rich — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:33:00 +0000

There is a documentary called The Quest for Nutrition you may find useful.

By: Paul Salmas

Paul Salmas — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:13:00 +0000

I was hoping to learn more about the industry behind vitamin supplements. This just talked about vitamin C, E, and A, and some of the effects they have. Vitamins are vital to great health – when taken from fruits and vegetables. Taking vitamins from pills (drugs) is something completely different.

Where do the minerals and vitamins in supplements come from? How are they made? What else is in them? Where does the vitamin C in “Emergen-C” come from? The calcium and vitamin D that’s fortified in pasteurized milk? What are the sources of the “minerals added” in bottled municipal water?

I heard manufactured vitamin C is only a chemical clone of real vitamin C, and is manufactured from coal tar. I’d like to know if this is true, and what other vitamins and minerals are manufactured from industrial waste. I also heard that Flintstones Vitamins have Aspartame and food coloring. Toxic!! (Watch the documentary on Aspartame (Sweet Misery), and Google “Underground Wellness Podcast Aspartame”). What else is surprising and hidden? http://www.blogtalkradio.com/undergroundwellness/2009/09/24/leave-the-aspartame-and-msg-alone-1

If anyone has a link to any REAL documentaries about manufactured vitamins (and mineral), please share. This documentary is a joke.

By: Charles Laff

Charles Laff — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:09:00 +0000

i think it’s a shame that poeple need to be told what to eat.we evolved as a specie for 50000 years with no one to guide us but our instinct,i think it’s time for us to trust our instinct again.the solution to all our problems lie within us. do yoga,open up your chakras and eat what feels right and everything will be just fine…

By: Timay

Timay — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:15:00 +0000

Vitamin in pill form is unbalanced and dangerous. In food form for example Vitamin C has thousands of chemicals, oxidants, antioxidants that balance it out. In the pill form scientists have not been able to extract all the chemicals with it. Genetically modified food has been enriched and fortified with vitamins and minerals lost during the processing. Vitamins are MICRO nutrients. 1 small bowl of total cereal gives you 100% what you need for the entire day for example. Pharmaceutical companies that sell vitamins are the ones that are filling your head with the simple lies about you not getting enough vitamins. On average people overeat, vitamins on top of that can only cause harm.