Frequency of taking supplements

<starved.TakeThisOut@rock.com> wrote in message
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> I take alot of vitamin and mineral supplements, but I'm on a budget and
> need to stretch them out. What's the better choice, healthwise?
>
> A. Take a full dose of all supplements every other day.
>
> B. Take a half dose of all supplements every day.
>
> Thanks.


Budget issues?

I'll suggest you review both your diet and your
supplement sources.

As to the A or B choices, B is generally the better choice
especially for the water soluble vitamins. In the case
of vitamins K and D, the larger doses every other
day can make sense but most don't have access or
haven't located such supplements, so this is irrelevant.

Take your fat soluble supplements with a fatty meal.

Make a point of consuming at least two serving of
dark green leafy vegetables. Think in terms
of getting at least a 0.5 milligrams of vitamin K
per day.

Try get at least 9 serving of fruits and vegetables
per day.

Seeds and raw nuts should be eaten regularly and
at levels that provide about 8 to 30 IU of vitamin E and
300 milligrams of magnesium per day.

Become familiar with the nutritive values tables and
think in milligrams, micrograms rather than in terms
of percentage of DV, RDI, or RDA.
And be aware the nutritive value table only give
at best an approximate values and range of of
uncertainty is actually rather wide as to the food
values often in the downward direction.
Learn the in and outs of the upper limits (UL) for vitamins
and minerals. In others words, learn were the UL
are wrong. The same goes for the DV, RDI, AI, and
RDA values.

If one targets the nutrients vitamin K, E, D, magnesium, and
B-6 and the rest seem to follow. Of course this means
most nutrition textbooks provide only nearly useless
nutritive values tables from my point of view.
The USDA provides nutritive value tables for
download.

Being very sparing with vegetable oils, refined sugars,
and refined grain products. Avoid ice cream, commerical
cookies, or deep fried foods.

Don't over do the milk products, grain products, or
the beef, pork, or poultry.

JQ

<pacemeister.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote
> David Cohen wrote:
>
>> Of course. What the diet and running morons fail to understand is
> that
>> optimal levels of micronutrients, for optimal health and longevity,
> can not
>> be achieved with just "a healthy diet".
>
> What the weightlifting morons fail to grasp is that if you don't want
> the opinions of runners, you shouldn't crosspost to a running group.

I want the opinion of the runners. Makes me feel superior, by comparison.
>
> (RR removed from groups)

RR added back in. I'd hate for you to miss my pithy comments.

David