Can You Eat Enough?
I've tried.
I've really tried.
I've really tried to eat the right foods
in the right amounts
to get all the nutrients that I need.
I have yet to be able to do it.
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My conclusion:
it's difficult to eat enough of the right foods
to get the optimal amounts of nutrients that you need
for your body to age well.
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Recently its been in the news because of it's anti-cancer benefits.
"Taking 1,000 international units (IU) - or 25 micrograms - of the vitamin daily
could lower an individual's cancer risk by 50% in colon cancer,
and by 30% in breast and ovarian cancer ..."
This research was done at the University of California in San Diego.
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in very few foods.
It is also produced when ultraviolet rays from sunlight
strike the skin and trigger vitamin D synthesis.
Very few foods in nature contain vitamin D.
The flesh of fish (such as salmon, tuna, and mackerel) and fish liver oils
Small amounts are found in beef liver, cheese, and egg yolks.
But there could be problems with most of these sources:
- farm-raised salmon can be high in toxins
- tuna can be high in toxins
- I don't know about mackerel
- beef liver is high in cholesterol
- as is cheese and egg yolks
- and even the sunlight on your skin is dangerous and sunblock
(which might in itself be dangerous)
reduces the skin's ability to manufacture Vitamin D
Fortified foods provide most of the vitamin D found in our diets.
Much of the U.S. milk supply is fortified with 100 IU/cup of vitamin D.
That means 10 cups of milk a day if you can tolerate/digest milk!
You could take 1 tablespoon of cod liver oil and satisfy your Vit D requirement.
I don't know of any toxic problems with cod liver oil
but I would be hesitant as it comes from the liver of cod (?)
and the liver processes all the toxins the fish is exposed to
so just like we're not eating liver unless it's "organically grown"
I would look for organic and "purified" cod liver oil for myself.
Now I eat
salmon about once a week (when I can find wild-caught)
tuna hardly ever (because of the toxins)
I never eat mackerel (????)
once a year I might have beef liver (I used to love it)
I've reduced my cheese and egg consumption because of cholesterol concerns
and I get early morning sunlight every day
yet I know I'm not getting enough Vitamin D
to get the health benefits noted above.
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My conclusion:
I don't eat enough of the right foods to get the nutrition that I need.
So I take THIS (Vitalizer Gold because I'm 64) and THIS to get the Vitamin D I need.
I eat reasonably well and I supplement.
Hopefully you do too.