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

sunlight prevents cancer!!

Wow was I suprised when I read a major report by Dr. Mercola http://www.mercola.com/2002/apr/3/sun_prevents_cancer.htm
that sunlight does not cause cancer but actually can prevent and fight cancer! Dr. Mercola has been doing some very interesting research for a book that he is writing, and has discovered that the farther you live from the equator, the higher the incidences of cancer in a given population.

Dr. Mercola has decided from looking at all the scientific data available the simple act of exposing oneself to sunlight (without overdoing it) doesn't just feel good, but is actually good for your health on a number of levels--one of which is cancer prevention. He contends that exposing the skin to sunlight allows the ultraviolet rays to hit the skin and penetrate and then an amazing thing happens--the skin turns cholesterol into vitamin D. Vitamin D, as it turns out, is an incredible super anti-oxidant, and actually helps to prevent cancer, as well as doing all sorts of other good things for us. Anti-oxidants are one of the things that go around attaching themselves to free radicals (which are super bad) and neutralizing them.

There is an optimum amount of time to be out in the sun. Don't over do it and get sunburn. Just as soon as your skin starts to turn the least bit pink, cover up and get out of the sun. Sunburn is no fun.

Happy sunning,
David A. Youngs