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POLL: Do you take a multivitamin?

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No Lifer
If not, why not? And don't say it's because you can get all you need from food. I'm sure that with the right diet a person can - but I bet you don't.
 
i take Centrum Performance.... i prolly get all my vitamins from the food i eat, but what the hell, better safe than sorry.
 
Originally posted by: Joemonkey
i take a multivitamin and a b complex vitamin on top of it
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Yeah I used to take a multi, a B complex and 1-2 extra vitamins and minerals on top of it. I think E and C and then a couple of minerals, but then that was when I had a clue what they did and now that I've forgotten I just take a multi 🙁

 
Centrum 1X day. I still eat like a pig though. I quit smoking, so that is a step in the good health direction...
 
Originally posted by: compudog
Centrum 1X day. I still eat like a pig though. I quit smoking, so that is a step in the good health direction...
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Whoo hoo! I think if I was out of shape and fat (you didn't say you were though) and ate like a horse and I smoked quiting the smoking is more important 🙂
 
I've taken a multi-vitamin every single day for over 20 years. It's a part of my normal morning routine, along with a healthy breakfast.
 
I'm sure you'll have a few people that say "If you eat correctly, there's no need for vitamins." They are correct, but unrealistic. I mean c'mon; who ACTUALLY eats five pieces of fruit, one piece of bread, a glass of milk and a piece of plain, unflavored chicken per day, everyday? Nobody I know.

I know that I don't eat right. I don't have the time. I usually have one huge meal and a snack per day. About four days a week, I'll drink a 16-oz bottle of orange juice. Four days a week, I pop a multivitamin right after my huge meal (lunch). I'm not dead yet, so I assume that I'm doing someting right!
 
Originally posted by: Rudee
I've taken a multi-vitamin every single day for over 20 years. It's a part of my normal morning routine, along with a healthy breakfast.
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you probably eat that "nutritional breakfast" they show on the back of the cereal box don't you with juice and toast and all that crap, instead of just jamming a heaping bowl of cocoa pebbles and sucking down the blackened milk like all the normal kids right 😀 😀
 
no i don't. i used to take flintstones vitamins when i was a kid, but now i'm 18 and slowly killing myself by eating junk college food; and yes, life is good. *hopefully* i will be alive in later in life to look back and realize how stupid i was but really, it's too damn expensive to buy all those vitamins.
 
Well alos taking to much of some vitamins is NOT good for you. So dont over do it. I take a Multi-Vit 3 times a week. That way still get some good Vit's but at the same time not to many.

I think A is one that to much is bad, can't remember the others. I do remember that Vit. C is water soliable so if you get to much you just P it out 🙂
 
No!

I have an unopened bottle of them in my cabinet though. I just have to convince myself to take them.


: ) Amanda
 
Flinstone Vitamins!! err 5 years ago i stopped...

ok ok ok i still sneak in a few from my little sisters bottle ;-) from time to time. does that count?
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'm sure you'll have a few people that say "If you eat correctly, there's no need for vitamins." They are correct, but unrealistic. I mean c'mon; who ACTUALLY eats five pieces of fruit, one piece of bread, a glass of milk and a piece of plain, unflavored chicken per day, everyday? Nobody I know.

I know that I don't eat right. I don't have the time. I usually have one huge meal and a snack per day. About four days a week, I'll drink a 16-oz bottle of orange juice. Four days a week, I pop a multivitamin right after my huge meal (lunch). I'm not dead yet, so I assume that I'm doing someting right!
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I do. I still don't think that's entirely balanced. I also have very little time so I make "quick" dinner/lunches that consist of the following:

- "Natural" turkey with naturally aged swiss sandwich on 100% wheat bread
- An apple or two
- "Organic" cottage cheese (yah, I shop at the health food store)

That generally takes me about 5 minutes to make and I'd say it's pretty healthy. When I have more time I usually George Foreman an 8-10oz salmon filet and steam a whole bowl of vegetables. I still take a multi twice a day.

I still have several dinners a week where I eat a rather large italian meal, but I feel that I make up for it 🙂
 
Originally posted by: cyclistca
I eat right.
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How do you know? As I prompted in the first post anytime I've been told not to take a multivitamin because if I eat properly I'll get all I need I have to say two things: 1) I don't eat right (and by right I mean perfectly), 2) Even if I wanted to I don't know how to eat right (as in perfectly getting perfect levels of all vitamins/minerals and macro nutrients).
Do multivitamins really help? What makes a good multivitamin?
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They help give you vitamins. Whether that really helps you will depend on whether you have any deficiencies or not. Of course many people would say that the RDA guidelines are not ideal. Ie, they say 60 mg I believe of Vitamin C, when in actual fact the ideal diet may contain much more of that. In terms of which company to get I just get one a day probably because I like the name and don't know much else 😉
 
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