Are your vitamins killing you?

Most people don't eat right. We know that we should be eating fresh fruits, salads, and fresh vegetables every day. Not just a few, but that they should be the majority (if not all) of what we eat. But we don't do that. And so we are not getting all the vitamins and minerals we should.

Have you noticed how every vitamin, mineral, and food supplement company touts that their pills are absolutely the best, and how everyone should be daily taking them? They can't all be the best--some have just got to be better than others. But how do you determine which ones are the best? I don't really know.

Some vitamin companies are saying that their vitamins are "more natural" while others claim that there vitamins are "more balanced" and easily assimilated. There are even companies that tell you that liquid vitamins are more readily absorbed by the body.

But no matter which vitamin pill or liquid you take, do NOT take too much. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Vitamin D is produced by your body (and mine too) when we go out into the sunlight. And if all our vitamin D is self produced, we will never over dose ourselves.
But if we take vitamin D in milk (and who decided that adding vitamin D to milk was a good idea?) and take vitamin D in pill or liquid form, we just might overdose ourselves.

Some vitamins are water soluble, and flush easily out of the system. But some are fat based, and if we take too much get actually stored in our body fat. Not good--not good at all. These take a long time to get rid of the extra vitamins.

Too many vitamins can make you sick, sometimes deathly ill. God knew what he was doing when he gave us so many different delicious fruits to eat, and such tasty fresh vegetables. You basically can never over dose yourself on vitamins if all you do is eat fresh fruit and vegetables.

Maybe it is time to change what we eat and stop taking vitamin pills?

happy eating
David A. Youngs