Excess Vitamin C & E- harmful?

[teamfatboy]

Hi all

Thought this might be interesting....

kinda makes the case for a balanced diet and/or a multi-vitamin instead of individual doses.

Anyways, in case it's interesting.

TFB

[rose]

kinda makes the case for a balanced diet and/or a multi-vitamin instead of individual doses.

Yup, taking something in isolation in the hopes of it making you function better/become superhuman, when in actual fact it's useless to your body if not taken with X or Y.

It starts turning into a major science project when you look at vitamins/minerals in isolation.

Doesn't state whether participants took 1000mg vit C and 400 IU vit E all at once or in smaller doses (might have missed it?).

Vitamin C especially, is one of those vitamins where the more you take the less is absorbed. So smaller amounts taken more frequently are likely to be better absorbed by your body.

Eat food and let your body sort it out hey? :wink:

The flipside of that is that it's nearly impossible to get all essential vitamins and minerals from diet alone (fucked soil etc), unless you wanna get hugely fat or spend hours researching and planning your food to ensure you do.

[etuate]

Good point. I've been told this before, better to get certain things into your diet through food. Something to think about.

Confession time though. This one time, at band camp. I got sick, but didn't want to be sick, so I ate half a container of vitamin c tablets, even though I knew it was futile. el oh el at me.

[laurasaur]

Good point. I've been told this before, better to get certain things into your diet through food. Something to think about.

Confession time though. This one time, at band camp. I got sick, but didn't want to be sick, so I ate half a container of vitamin c tablets, even though I knew it was futile. el oh el at me.

ahhaahahhahahahahahahaha

[Specter]

Good point. I've been told this before, better to get certain things into your diet through food. Something to think about.

Confession time though. This one time, at band camp. I got sick, but didn't want to be sick, so I ate half a container of vitamin c tablets, even though I knew it was futile. el oh el at me.

Geez! did you turn orange and pizz orange!

[etuate]

I'm not sure, I was too emo that day to notice :?

[rose]

This one time, at band camp. I got sick, but didn't want to be sick, so I ate half a container of vitamin c tablets, even though I knew it was futile.

I'm not sure, I was too emo that day to notice :?

ROFL! Heh

Geez! did you turn orange and pizz orange!

Years ago I went through a carrot juice phase, and true to form the palms of my hands and my feet developed an awesome orange tint like baaaaad self-tan gone wrong :pfft:

I didn't really notice it until one day a lady at work mentioned it. How could I not notice?? :shock:

[Specter]

This one time, at band camp. I got sick, but didn't want to be sick, so I ate half a container of vitamin c tablets, even though I knew it was futile.

I'm not sure, I was too emo that day to notice :?

ROFL! Heh

Geez! did you turn orange and pizz orange!

Years ago I went through a carrot juice phase, and true to form the palms of my hands and my feet developed an awesome orange tint like baaaaad self-tan gone wrong :pfft:

I didn't really notice it until one day a lady at work mentioned it. How could I not notice?? :shock:

lol...Your brave to even go through a carrot juice phase! :shock:

[rose]

lol...Your brave to even go through a carrot juice phase! :shock:

I think I just weed myself laughing. Ooops :shifty:

"Carrot juice diet killed scientist

A health food addict who had been drinking up to eight pints of carrot juice a day was bright yellow when he died..."

Zomg, thank f*ck I wasn't drinking 8 pints of the shit :shock:

But "He also took vitamin A tablets."

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/nutrition.html

[Specter]

lol...Your brave to even go through a carrot juice phase! :shock:

I think I just weed myself laughing. Ooops :shifty:

"Carrot juice diet killed scientist

A health food addict who had been drinking up to eight pints of carrot juice a day was bright yellow when he died..."

Zomg, thank f*ck I wasn't drinking 8 pints of the shit :shock:

But "He also took vitamin A tablets."

http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/nutrition.html

Thanks for the link! You just put me off carrotts!..lol Im off to bed,,its 22.45pm here and dreading coming back to NZ!