Can we get everything we need from vitamins? I see the same thing everywhere, multivitamins are good as a supplement but eating a balanced diet is much better for you. I can't tell if it's the truth or a conspiracy created by the agriculture industry.
Multivitamins make sense to me. Do they not have everything we need? Could we get everything we need from eating more vitamins?
>Can we get everything we need from vitamins?
no
>conspiracy created by the agriculture industry.
lol
>Do they not have everything we need?
no
>Could we get everything we need from eating more vitamins?
no
>>36945571
Bad bioavailability, no fiber, expensive= multivitamins.
Eat veggies. Spinach, broccoli, peppers, green salad, kale, onion, garlic... How do you even cook with no veggies.
Or take 12+ pills of multi a day. Which is expensive.
Only vitamins that you may benefit from are Vitamin C and D (which isn't a vit.), so pop them if you want.
Bout them minerals:
Zinc and Magnesium.
And don't forget Omega-3.
>>36945571
>Can we get everything we need from vitamins?
No. Not gonna bother writing out an explanation more intelligent than that because I'm offended by the stupidity of the question
You can use them as insurance, but you're not going to absorb all of it.
>>36945571
Flintstones chewables taste better than broccoli any week of the day
>>36945571
I take both.
>>36945763
>broccoli tastes bad
Grow up. It tastes just fine.
>>36945831
It tastes fucking repulsive but it's healthy as fuck.
>>36945839
>It tastes fucking repulsive
No it doesn't. It just tastes like any vegetable. Barely tastes like anything at all. Don't be a child.
>>36945831
I said flintstones chewables tasted better you dumb fuck. Did you get a vegetable stuck up your nose and lodged in your brain?
Chocolate tasting better than vanilla doesn't mean vanilla tastes bad
>>36945905
This is a website for legal adults. Discontinue browsing immediately.
there are literally hundreds of phytochemicals in vegetables that are considered to be "functional nutrients" but not strictly "essential"
polyphenols
stilbenoids
carotenoids
lignans
glucosinolates
and more
not to mention all the various fibers you miss out on by not eating vegetables
just eat your goddamn vegetables
>>36945571
if you think vitamins are better than vegetables you are literally retarded.
>>36945571
It's all about bioavailability. Our bodies are designed to take what we need from food, hence, vegetables have better bioavailability than vitamins for human digestion.
Vitamins are a meme, if you eat an almost balanced diet you are fine for vitamins.
Vitamins/minerals aren't really why you eat vegetables.
Multivitamins can correct nutritional deficiencies but they don't have benefit beyond that, like veggies do.
http://www.aicr.org/reduce-your-cancer-risk/diet/elements_phytochemicals.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
^ Taking these compounds as a supplement doesn't work either. You gotta eat food.
why not have vegetables and vitamins?
Would eating like half a bag of kale a day be enough?
>>36949028
Better to have a variety of veg than having one every day
Does it count as 5 servings if I cut a carrot into 5 peaces and eat them over the day?
>>36949028
Your poo will be leafy looking. Don't ask.
Why not both
>>36949028
Might get expensive.
Just make a whey, kale/spinach/chard shake in the morning with whatever else in it. You can find a mix of the three or whatever at pretty much any store.
>tfw allergic to tree nuts and I can't find a safe brand of dried fruits to eat for those health gains.
>le 'my body can tell between identical molecules' meme
if the vitamins are in the same chemical form then it doesn't matter where they come from.
>>36950289
Not even the 60 year old cucks with PHDs who actually read studies can all agree on this topic.
Take a certain one, if a doctor tells you that you are deficient.
Ronnie Coleman doesnt eat vegetables
It's not just bioavailability, but there's a slew of other micronturients that are either too fragile/expensive to put into a pill, or synergize with the other micronutrients in the veggie
broccoli- glucoraphanin, lutein, zeaxanthin
cabbage- anthocyanin, glucoraphanin, glucobrassicin, sinigrin, glucotropaeolin
>>36950549
What are those good for though?
>>36950574
>What are those good for though?
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=9
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=19
>>36950351
ronnie coleman won't live to see his 60s
>>36950595
Cheers mang
>>36945571
You should only take vitamins/minerals ON TOP of a balanced diet to cover any nutritional holes you might have overlooked.
>>36945831
>>36945873
some people taste a super bitter compound in it due to genetics, look it up
>>36945591
But you're wrong
>multivitamins
>buying the capsulated jew
That's right goy, with veggies you always lose.
>>36950758
Ah, some people were born fags, I understand.
I mean oral vitamin tablets work. We give them to patients and you can see serum levels of the relevant vitamins go up in their labs later. B vitamins, iron pills, and potassium pills all work.
>>36950873
hahahhaha word
>>36947083
Fuck you! You aren't my real mother!
>>36950873
kek'd
>>36945571
Multivitamins literally do nothing. As in, they did studies, and they do literally nothing.
>>36953929
[literally citations needed]
