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Can You Get Your Vitamins and Minerals Through Diet Alone?

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People do not eat this way. Also if people sat around eating fish their mercury would go high in their body. Yogurt in many cases is full of sugar and we all know by now dairy is not a good food choice. Eating a dark leafy salad everyday is asking for a kidney stone and with nuts being a high allergy food not a lot of people can go along eating handfuls of tree nuts everyday and expect a good out come long term.
Face it people either they destroyed our food supply or we need to be eating more meat and have been lied too, or we do not need as much vitamins and minerals as the USRDA claims.

Brian Underwood of NY 4:36AM August 23, 2009

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Grace Chaple of CA 11:19AM July 20, 2009

How many people would eat a diet like that? Its ridiculous to think you can get optimum levels of all the nutrients you need from your diet. Besides, healthy foods cost more, usually a lot more and it is cheaper to get vitamins and minerals from a supplement. You should still eat a variety of fruits and vegetables since supplements don't provide the full complement of phytonutrients but supplements do a better job of providing the major ones.
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Alan of MN 9:34PM July 18, 2009

It seems increasingly difficult to find packaged foods that DON'T have added vitamins and minerals. In seems that in the US we are over-vitamin-ed if anything. It is funny to me that bread in particular is made with white flour that has had natural nutrients stripped out of it, only to have vitamins added back in to the final product. The food industry will do anything to keep food products cheap, shelf stable and with the appearance of being healthful.
How did people survive back when there were no added vitamins to foods?

my year without of OR 10:59AM July 15, 2009

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philip Fry of CA 12:19PM July 08, 2009