Comments on: Right Nutrients Bring Real Difference http://stayingfitonline.com/nutrition/vitamins/right-nutrients-bring-real-difference/ Roadmap To A Healthy Living Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:55:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peggy http://stayingfitonline.com/nutrition/vitamins/right-nutrients-bring-real-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Peggy Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:27:26 +0000 http://stayingfitonline.com/?p=297#comment-217 It is good advice to take vitamins when on a calorie restricted diet -- particularly if you're on one of those ones not recommended by healthcare officials that cut out major food groups -- to make sure you aren't missing essential nutrients. It is wishful thinking but inaccurate that obesity is the result of vitamin deficiency and that taking vitamins would cause weight loss. It's simple math - consume more calories than you burn and the body stores them; do the opposite and you lose weight. We all wish that was not the case and the food supplement industry makes a fortune trying to tell people they can eat what they want and still lose weight. Cravings have nothing to do with a nutrient deficiency except in extremely rare cases where you hear about pregnant women are eating clay that contains a particular mineral. For the vast majority of us, cravings are almost always for fat, sugar and/or salt (put all 3 together and YUM!) -- otherwise we'd crave broccoli and carrots, not french fries. It is good advice to take vitamins when on a calorie restricted diet — particularly if you’re on one of those ones not recommended by healthcare officials that cut out major food groups — to make sure you aren’t missing essential nutrients. It is wishful thinking but inaccurate that obesity is the result of vitamin deficiency and that taking vitamins would cause weight loss. It’s simple math – consume more calories than you burn and the body stores them; do the opposite and you lose weight. We all wish that was not the case and the food supplement industry makes a fortune trying to tell people they can eat what they want and still lose weight.

Cravings have nothing to do with a nutrient deficiency except in extremely rare cases where you hear about pregnant women are eating clay that contains a particular mineral. For the vast majority of us, cravings are almost always for fat, sugar and/or salt (put all 3 together and YUM!) — otherwise we’d crave broccoli and carrots, not french fries.

]]> By: she http://stayingfitonline.com/nutrition/vitamins/right-nutrients-bring-real-difference/comment-page-1/#comment-211 she Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:03:15 +0000 http://stayingfitonline.com/?p=297#comment-211 again, VERY helpful info for a recovering ed'er. again, VERY helpful info for a recovering ed’er.

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