4Jun/11Off
Are these good vitamin supplements to take everyday?
I'm on a fruit, vegetable and nut diet,(Vegetarian if you wish,) And I am now taking vitamin supplements,
I'm taking
Vitamin E
Vitamin D
Vitamin B-12
B stress Complex
and Flaxseed oil
As well as a teaspoon of Fish Oil.
Is that healthy?
June 4th, 2011 - 03:50
Most of your vitamins (with the exception of some B-vitamins) are found in fruits and vegetables, vegetables in particular. At that, most of your B-complex are found in nuts and grains. I would suggest taking a full B-complex vitamin, ensure it includes B-12 and B-5, but more importantly I think you should supplement amino acids. If you aren’t even getting in dairy products it’s likely you aren’t getting enough protein. Make sure you either make corn and nuts a large portion of your diet, or you supplement essential amino acids. These are methionine, threonine, phenylalanine, lysine, tryptophan, valine, leucine, and isoleucine.
June 4th, 2011 - 03:50
I’d add a multivitamin to that personally – not that I think it’s really necessary, I just like to cover all my bases. But otherwise it seems fine to me. :)
June 4th, 2011 - 03:50
Those vitamins are great. However, you can take a good multi vitamin that will have all of those nutrients that your body needs and more (I take Andrew Lessman’s Essential One from HSN.com or his website http://www.procapslabs.com/PCL/Content/home.aspx).
I also take the Omega 3 as well.
If you compare the Percent Daily Value to other brands it is so much better. Also, the quality is fabulous and there are no artifial ingredients added to the vitamins. The mulivitamin even has the Vitamin D 1000 IU so you don’t have to take an additonal vitamin. It saves money so that you don’t have to buy so many seperate vitamins.
I feel good buying from a company that is evironment friendly and is solar powered.
Good Luck on your diet!
June 4th, 2011 - 03:50
Flaxseed oil and fish oil are kinda redundant. You mainly want both of those for omega 3. I would suggest dropping fish oil and just keeping flaxseed oil since it has omega 3 and you don’t have to worry about if your fish oil is purified or not ( pollutants from the fish they are extracted can remain on the supplements if not properly taken care of).
I know vegeterians can have problems with B-12 (since the most common sources of it are animal based stuff) so it’s probably a good idea to take that.
If you don’t take milk as part of your diet ( which often had added vitamin D nowadays) than ya I think those supplements are all a good idea.
And yes, it does seem healthy. It seems your covering well the vitamins most vegetarians usually lack due to their diet.