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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (117812)	2/23/2009 6:38:46 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

The more the food cos. reveal, the less they tell us. I believe in vitamins and minerals extracted from food, rather than the popular (because they're much cheaper) vitamins created in a lab. You do not need supplementation if you have a perfect diet of all natural food. Almost nobody does. Most of us eat de-natured white flour bread and pasta, even if it has the fancy names they give bread at delis and pasta at Italian restaurants. Most of us take in too much sugar and salt, both of which rob the body of certain vitamins and minerals. It is safer to gulp down a Mega Foods Alpha every day to be certain you are getting enough. Studies have been done many times that show that the chemical vitamins are simply not assimilated by the body, so Harvard's study will come a cropper just like all the other studies that use foodless vitamins and minerals. Heck, some of those mineral supplements sold in stores are just rocks. Your guts are not going to love them. Rocks have minerals, but they don't digest as well as the calcium in spinach. Vitamin D is another story. All you need for that one is 15 minutes a day in the Sun. I sunburn easily and don't get out much. But I get out more than 15 minutes. Anyone who cannot do that needs a serious lifestyle change. I remember when I worked at the mental hospital (I was really an employee, not a patient), we took even the most retarded "kids" out for a half an hour a day of Sun. People critters need the sunshine.