If TOTAL can have all those vitamins and minerals..... then why cant they add them to the "good" cereals?
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They could, they just don't...Why don't you just take a multivitamin and eat whatever cereal you want???
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I'll temper this,yes. But I often don't eat a balanced diet. Most multi-vitamins are water soluble. It is said that America has the richest urine in the world. In other words, if not needed, it passes on through. You could write a Doctoral Thesis on this you know !
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Yep!\n\nAlthough it doesn't have to be Total... any lo-cal cereal and skim milk will work.\n\nWhy it makes sense: each normal meal is about 500+ calories, while a bowl of cereal and milk is about 200 or less... over time the calories add up (3500 for 1 pound of fat) and the weight comes off.
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The human requires 46 essential nutrients from the daily diet. Essential vitamins consist of vitamins, minerals, proteins (amino acids).\n\nEssential nutrients:\n\n1)Most are not produced by the body.  100% sourced from our diet\n2)Many are broken down, lost or excreted daily.  Required daily\n3)Should be consumed in balanced proportions. Nutritional intake should be balanced.\n4)Are interdependent and may not be able to function without the presence of others.  The 46 essential nutrients should be presented at all times. \n\nLacking of 46 essential nutrients, Acidic body condition, unhealthy lifestyle will lead to unhealthy cells  Semi unhealthy state – headache, fatigue, shoulders ache  Long term will lead to high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, leukemia, many 21st century common diseases.\n\nSpirulina is a highly nutritious health food, power-packed with vegetative protein, Gamma Linolenic Acid, Glycogen, numerous vitamins and minerals. This alkaline seaweed can be readily digested and easily assimilated by the human body. It is an ideal food supplement for achieving good health and energy.\n\nI have testimonials on people who have the same conditions as you and they have recovered now. I hope I can help you out on this.\n\nIf you want to know more information, you can email me at jaslinlee@yahoo.com I will be glad to answer your enquiries.
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I haven't tried it, but I've read a lot about it.  From what I've read, it's mostly just an expensive multivitamin that's given the hard-sell by someone who just wants you to sell it too.  You can probably do just as well getting a multivitamin from the store like Centrum.  It appears to me that those who sell it are more interested in getting other people to sell it than they are interested in selling the product itself--simply a big pyramid scheme.
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It's called Pica - their bodies are lacking in vitamins/minerals.
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Well it provides as much as a vitamin can...\nThe rest is up to you and the real food you eat...\nYou will never get all the nutrients with only a pill...
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Hi Brad.  This is not a simple question because there are many issues involved.\n\n1) Many studies have shown that the amount of vitamin/mineral listed on the label of a supplement is NOT what is actually in the bottle.  At the present time, you have no way of knowing the 'actual' content of a purchased supplement.  You can only 'hope' the label reflects the actual level of ingredients.\n\n2) Storage, processing, age, etc. of supplements can affect their potency.  Again you have no way of knowing about these issues for a given brand.  For example, is the cheap brand of vitamin C cheap because the company purchases a huge lot of it from the manufacturer (to get a 'good price') and has been storing it in a hot warehouse in Texas for the last two years?  Age and heat damage many vitamins.\n\n3)  Many cheaper supplements contain sugars, preservatives, colorings, etc. that just are not 'appropriate' chemicals in a quality supplement.\n\n4) Medical studies have shown that the cheaper forms of minerals found in most supplements (such as: zinc oxide, magnesium oxide, etc.) may not even be absorbed.  The more expensive, quality supplements will contain amino acid 'chelates' of minerals that have been proven to be better absorbed (such as: magnesium citrate, or glycinate, or gluconate or malate, etc.)\n\n5) You can purchase a new car for less than $10K or you can purchase a new car for $30k or more.  Quality always costs more, and it is often worth paying for it, especially where your health is concerned.\n\n6) Vitamin E in most cheap supplements is the synthetic form called dl-alpha-tocopherol (also called all-racemic alpha-tocopherol).  Real vitamin E is d-alpha-tocopherol - plus 7 additional forms (called vitamers).  The real stuff has benefits the synthetic form lacks and some studies even suggest the synthetic form interferes with the body's processing of the other, good forms, of vitamin E.  Any supplement with the 'dl' form of vitamin E is 'the cheap stuff', should be avoided and is a sign that the manufacturer doesn't care about the true quality of their product.\n\n7)  Avoid any product that does not list the exact form of each vitamin or mineral.  Products that just say "Vitamin E" or "Calcium" are hiding the fact that they are using the cheapest ingredients, which again may not be the best.  It makes me wonder 'what else are they hiding?'.\n\nHope this was helpful.  Talk to the people at your health food store.  They are there to help you.  Expect to pay about $1 per day for a quality multi-vitamin/mineral supplement ($30 for a one month supply).  In April 2002 the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended the use of vitamin supplements for all adults because it may help reduce the risks for many common diseases (heart disease, cancer, brain degeneration, cataracts, etc.).  Invest in your health by purchasing a supplement that works!\n\nHope this wasn't too long, and therefore was helpful for you.  Best wishes.
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This is a tricky question. You really need to talk to a nutritionist because everyone has different needs.
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Your body NORMALLY gets rid of excess calcium, so too much is not an issue.  I know that Vitamin A is dangerous in high levels and I am not sure about Vitamin D. . .though I recently was told of a common vitamin (can't remember which) that one can take too much of, and for some reason Vitamin D has a bell going off in my head. . .I hope someone here can help you.  BTW. . when you hit 18. . .and those of you who are eligible. . .\n\nVOTE!. . .VOTE!. . .VOTE!. . .VOTE!. . .VOTE!. . .VOTE!. . .VOTE!. . .\n\nPlease visit my 360 page: http://360.yahoo.com/zambranoray...........\n\nThanks
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I feel one has to change up the breakfast cereal diet from time to time...but the all time...the ultimate...gotta be the Fruity Pebbles...oh yeah...you love em...the rest of you just forgot!\n\nGolden Grahms? are you nuts??
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Sounds like you are doing really good, but what kind of bread and cereal do you eat? make sure its whole grain, because the white kind isnt good for you.
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2400mg Max! Its hard to do coz all process foods have salt.Dont add salt to anything and read labels carefully.Cheese pizza and hamburgers are loaded with salt!Forget fish and chips all together.Look at bread labels, cottage cheese,even yogurt and you will be surprised at the amount of salt they have! The AMA is trying to force the FDA to add a new label to foods.I hope they can do this coz it will be a great help.
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yes, because it increases your metabolism, which burns fat more efficiently. Fruit or whole grain cereal dont add much calories and jumpstart your system.
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It's complete in terms of carbohydrates, lipids (fat) and protein.  It is not, however, complete in terms of vitamins and minerals.  Because of the balance of the major nutrients, you could likely live on milk and a good vitamin pill.  In the early 1700's, an early English social scientist commented on how large and healthy Irish people were, and said that in the month he lived at one family's house, he never saw them eat anything but cabbage and milk.
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Vitamins are better absorbed by supplement's. the problem is that the body gets used to the supplements and stops looking for nutrients in food.
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what if you just do one slide for each vitamin, and go into more specifics on the individual vitamin on it's slide, including foods that supply it, types of supplements like ascorbates, etc. which works, amount daily dose recommended and maybe the effects of that vitamin's deficiency (like scurvy). if you did the main vitamins and maybe combined all the Bs on one that would be about 15.