Vitamin Supplements

[George]

Hi
I've found a really good website that has a great range of vegetarian vitamins (i.e. without gelatine) and that delivers free. There are loads of great deals on just now to. The website in case anyone is interested is:

http://www.healthspan.co.uk/

[donnamatrix]

[s]George wrote on 17:44, 10th Apr 2005:
Hi
I've found a really good website that has a great range of vegetarian vitamins (i.e. without gelatine) and that delivers free. There are loads of great deals on just now to. The website in case anyone is interested is:

http://www.healthspan.co.uk/


Great, thanks for pointing that out! I try to get all my vitamins from my diet, but I do take a multi-vit for insurance, and B12.

[Steveo]

Let's face it, if your diet requires you to take suppliments' it's the wrong one.

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[Dan Canaveral]

Quoting Steveo from 16:01, 13th Apr 2005
Let's face it, if your diet requires you to take suppliments' it's the wrong one.

Given the massive numbers of omnivorous people who take multivitamins, to compliment and reinforce what they're getting from their diet, that's a pretty fatuous comment to make specifically about vegetarians/vegans. The benefits of vitamin supplements may be debatable, but they can form an important part of a balanced diet, regardless of whether that diet is predominantly meat or vegetable-based.

In any case, most vegetarians and vegans eat better than any meat-eater I've ever met, since they're far more aware of what they're eating most of the time, and they tend to eat less processed shite than omnivores.

But thanks for the encouragment to 'face' this. You're an inspiration.

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[Steveo]

Given the massive numbers of omnivorous people who take multivitamins, to compliment and reinforce what they're getting from their diet, that's a pretty fatuous comment to make specifically about vegetarians/vegans. The benefits of vitamin supplements may be debatable, but they can form an important part of a balanced diet, regardless of whether that diet is predominantly meat or vegetable-based.

Of those omniverous people taking supliments, most of them probably need to because their diet is wrong, and many of them will not need to actually have to take supliments.

Be you vegetarian/vegan/meat eating, you shouldn't have to take supliments if you eat correctly.

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[flarewearer]

Quoting Dan Canaveral from 16:56, 13th Apr 2005
that's a pretty fatuous comment to make specifically about vegetarians/vegans.

You don't know how ironic it is that you described Steve as fatuous

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[flarewearer]

Quoting Steveo from 10:14, 14th Apr 2005
Be you vegetarian/vegan/meat eating, you shouldn't have to take supliments if you eat correctly.

He's right you know. It's best to eat sensibly and get a balanced diet than top it up with industially produced multivitamins with dubious health benefits.

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[Dan Canaveral]

Quoting flarewearer from 02:32, 18th Apr 2005
He's right you know. It's best to eat sensibly and get a balanced diet than top it up with industially produced multivitamins with dubious health benefits.

He is indeed right, but it's not an issue that applies exclusively to vegetarians/vegans which is what he insinuated pretty clearly by posting it on this thread, on this board.
In any case, I neither eat well enough, nor do I take supplements, so I'm entirely fucked.

Edited for HTML-based idiocy

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[donnamatrix]

Note from the board administrator:

Comments on this thread relating to the quality of a diet that includes supplements have been deleted. This board is not for criticising the views and diets of vegetarians and vegans.

Thank you for your helpful post George - I hope that people's negative comments won't put you off posting interesting items again.

Donna

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[flarewearer]

Not one to be picking a fight or argument, but surely it IS a valid point to suggest that a balanced diet that provides for you is preferrable to taking supplements?

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[donnamatrix]

Quoting flarewearer from 16:15, 19th Apr 2005
Not one to be picking a fight or argument, but surely it IS a valid point to suggest that a balanced diet that provides for you is preferrable to taking supplements?

Yes, it is a valid point, but the comment(s) deleted were not phrased as suggestions. The author didn't recognise the notion of 'preference' you mention, but attacked the 'necessity' of supplements.

No further discussion is needed in this thread.

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--Peter Singer[/s]

[flarewearer]

R.I.P this thread. We all enjoyed it while it was alive, but now it's gone... ...*wipes tear*

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