{"id":592,"date":"2003-08-28T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T20:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/08\/28\/8-28-03\/"},"modified":"2007-03-02T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T23:06:33","slug":"vitamins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/28\/vitamins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I keep hearing that the USDA&#8217;s food pyramid thingy and vitamin recommendations are &#8220;outdated&#8221;. Everybody who knows anything about vitamins knows that the USDA is behind on the times&#8230;  So being a person with some desire to do the right thing, I tried to find out what vitamins I SHOULD take.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody friggin knows.<\/p>\n<p>The best I could find is listed below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nas.edu\/iom\/iomhome.nsf\/WFiles\/webtablevitamins\/$file\/webtablevitamins.pdf\">http:\/\/www4.nas.edu\/iom\/iomhome.nsf\/WFiles\/webtablevitamins\/$file\/webtablevitamins.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nbiotin 30 mcg ND<br \/>\nCholine 550 mg 3500<br \/>\nFolic Acid 400 mcg 1000<br \/>\nniacin 16 mg 35<br \/>\nPantothenic Acid 5 mg ND<br \/>\nRiboflavin\/B2 1.3 mg ND<br \/>\nThiamin\/B1 1.2 mg ND<br \/>\nA 900 mcg 3000<br \/>\nB6 1.3 mg 100<br \/>\nB12 2.4 mcg ND<br \/>\nC 90 mg 2000<br \/>\nD 5 mcg 50<br \/>\nE 15 mg 1000<br \/>\nK 120 mcg ND<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www4.nas.edu\/iom\/iomhome.nsf\/WFiles\/Webtableminerals\/$file\/Webtableminerals.pdf\">http:\/\/www4.nas.edu\/iom\/iomhome.nsf\/WFiles\/Webtableminerals\/$file\/Webtableminerals.pdf<\/a><br \/>\ncalcium 1000 mg 2500<br \/>\nchromium 35 mcg ND<br \/>\ncopper 900 mcg 10,000<br \/>\niodine 150 mcg 1,100<br \/>\niron 8 mg 45<br \/>\nmagnesium 400 mg 400<br \/>\nmanganese 2.3 mg 11<br \/>\nmolybdenum 45 mcg 2000<br \/>\nphosphorus 700 mg 4000<br \/>\nselenium 55 mcg 400<br \/>\nzinc 11 mg 40<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/nutritionsource\/vitamins.html\">http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/nutritionsource\/vitamins.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>vitamin A is 5,000 IU. no more than 10,000<br \/>\nvitamin C is 90 mg<br \/>\nfolic acid, at least 400 micrograms (women only?)<br \/>\nvitamin B6 1.3 to 1.7 milligrams of<br \/>\nB12 is 6 micrograms<br \/>\nvitamin D is 5 micrograms<br \/>\nvitamin E 22-400 IU<\/p>\n<p>vitamin K is 80 micrograms<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m just going to keep taking Centrum. And when I start to feel sick, I&#8217;ll take extra Vitamin C like my dad demands I do; At least it makes him feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I keep hearing that the USDA&#8217;s food pyramid thingy and vitamin recommendations are &#8220;outdated&#8221;. Everybody who knows anything about vitamins knows that the USDA is behind on the times&#8230; So being a person with some desire to do the right thing, I tried to find out what vitamins I SHOULD take. Nobody friggin knows. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}