Vitamin Water good enough?

[vital]

If I drink 1 bottle of Vitamin Water a day, should I still take a multivitamin supplement pill or is Vitamin Water good enough by itself?

 

[TecHNooB]

vitamin water is expensive

 

[vital]

oops mods please move to health and fitness

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Why do you think you need vitamin supplements?

 

[Nik]

Vitamin supplements basically flush through your system. Something like 90% of the pill gets rejected. Don't waste your money. Your best bet is to change your diet to match the vitamin intake you desire.

 

[thescreensavers]

Vitamin supplements basically flush through your system. Something like 90% of the pill gets rejected. Don't waste your money. Your best bet is to change your diet to match the vitamin intake you desire.

Do you have a source for that?

 

[Nik]

Do you have a source for that?

Ask in H&F. :thumbsup:

 

[Capt Caveman]

If I drink 1 bottle of Vitamin Water a day, should I still take a multivitamin supplement pill or is Vitamin Water good enough by itself?

Is this a serious question? If yes, read the Supplement Fact label on each package, that should clearly help you make a decision.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Vitamin water |= Multivitamin

Vitamin Water is just a brand name. It should not be taken as a replacement for multivitamins. You should focus on balancing your diet first before you even concern yourself with taking supplemental vitamins, unless directed by your physician.

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

Vitamin supplements basically flush through your system. Something like 90% of the pill gets rejected. Don't waste your money. Your best bet is to change your diet to match the vitamin intake you desire.

Depends on the supplement. Cheap vitamins without enteric coating do flush out quickly or are destroyed by stomach acid, better quality vitamins won't release until they've reached the intestines

Although, yeah, the best solution is always to eat a balanced diet... supplements should be your "insurance" rather than your primary nutrition.

 

[yhelothar]

Vitamin supplements basically flush through your system. Something like 90% of the pill gets rejected. Don't waste your money. Your best bet is to change your diet to match the vitamin intake you desire.

A lot of the pills say they have 1000% daily value of the vitamin or so. So 10% would be perfect then?

 

[Jeff7]

It'd be better to use water + the multivitamin. Much cheaper, and there should be much more stuff in the multivitamin tablet than there is in the Vitamin Water. It wouldn't surprise me if they have the minimum required quantity in there which would allow them to use the word "vitamin" in the product name.

 

[Born2bwire]

Vitamin water? Seriously? That's stuff is just a fancy name for sugared sports drink. Hell, they even managed to get themselves in trouble with the FDA.

 

[Mike Gayner]

LOL @ people who waste their money on vitamin supplements. What makes you think you need these things? Or is it because you live on cheeseburgers and hotdogs? Just eat a healthy balanced diet (I know, *shock* to Americans) and you wont need any of that crap.

Somehow I have gone 25 years without a vitamin supplement and haven't died or fallen seriously ill. Westerners are eating more nutritionally full diets than ever before (unless you're an American who eats only cheeseburgers and hotdogs) so you're being sold complete bullshit with this vitamin obsession.

 

[Farang]

LOL @ people who waste their money on vitamin supplements. What makes you think you need these things? Or is it because you live on cheeseburgers and hotdogs? Just eat a healthy balanced diet (I know, *shock* to Americans) and you wont need any of that crap.

Somehow I have gone 25 years without a vitamin supplement and haven't died or fallen seriously ill. Westerners are eating more nutritionally full diets than ever before (unless you're an American who eats only cheeseburgers and hotdogs) so you're being sold complete bullshit with this vitamin obsession.

this is a character you're playing.

 

[BoomerD]

For a change, I agree with Mike Gayner. MOST people don't need vitamin supplements, and MOST of those expensive vitamins just end up being expensive urine. That's not to say that some people don't need vitamins because their diet is crap...or that the body doesn't retain SOME of the vitamins, just that something like 75-80% of the vitamins are expelled from your body as unused.
(of course, if you go for a $100 dinner, that's also going to be expelled in time...)

 

[0roo0roo]

wow another sucker for vitamin water? its soda, end of story, you are drinking cola for nutrition. stop it. http://www.everydayhealth.com/blog/zimney-health-and-medical-news-you-can-use/the-vitaminwater-scam/
http://abosco.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/vitamin-water-contains-no-vitamins/

 

[QueBert]

wow another sucker for vitamin water? its soda, end of story, you are drinking cola for nutrition. stop it. http://www.everydayhealth.com/blog/zimney-health-and-medical-news-you-can-use/the-vitaminwater-scam/
http://abosco.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/vitamin-water-contains-no-vitamins/

Soda's have carbonation, Vitamin Water doesn't, so no it's not soda, end of story. And it's sugar content is much lower than Coke or Pepsi. My Pepsi Throwback has about 3 times as much sugar per serving. And Vitamin Water does have vitamins, which soda's don't. I drink Vitamin Water Zero, which has a whopping 3g of sugar per bottle. It tastes pretty good and I get 300% Vitamin C + 25% of my Vitamin A + 10% of my daily calcium + some Potassium.
Is it good for me? yes and no, it's not going to replace needing to eat fruit and veggies, but it's not bad for me and does contain some shit my body needs. Coke has never marketed it as a complete multi vitamin replacement.

 

[JEDIYoda]

If I drink 1 bottle of Vitamin Water a day, should I still take a multivitamin supplement pill or is Vitamin Water good enough by itself?

are you a blooming idiot??
If you are eating properly you do not need vitamin supplements. In fact it has been medically proven that 99% of the people who take vitamin supplement recieve no added benefits.
Vitamin water is so wrong in so many ways!!

 

[AznAnarchy99]

LOL @ people who waste their money on vitamin supplements. What makes you think you need these things? Or is it because you live on cheeseburgers and hotdogs? Just eat a healthy balanced diet (I know, *shock* to Americans) and you wont need any of that crap.

Somehow I have gone 25 years without a vitamin supplement and haven't died or fallen seriously ill. Westerners are eating more nutritionally full diets than ever before (unless you're an American who eats only cheeseburgers and hotdogs) so you're being sold complete bullshit with this vitamin obsession.

QFT. The only basic supplements that you could possibly need are fish oil (unless you eat enough fish) and protein.

 

[Mike Gayner]

QFT. The only basic supplements that you could possibly need are fish oil (unless you eat enough fish) and protein.

99.999% of normal people don't need protein supplements. In fact, 99% of people who think they need protein supplements still don't need protein supplements. You don't need nearly as much protein as you think, and all of these websites and gurus assuring you that you need 150g of protein a day for workout results generally have zero evidence to back up their assertions. Notice how most of those websites sell or advertise protein powder?

 

[Kirby]

i really like the power c flavor of vitamin water.

 

[geno]

You are a moron if you think you can walk into a 7-11, pick up a drink in the fridge section and walk out with the vitamins you need for the day. I am stunned by the lack of common sense people display when it comes to their health and diet...stunned.

 

[nageov3t]

LOL @ people who waste their money on vitamin supplements. What makes you think you need these things?

my doctor was all "hey, you should start taking a multivitamin and iron supplement."

but if the internet tells me I don't need to...

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Vitamin Water is actually not 'good' at all