Posted on 12/04/2009 10:28:15 PM PST by neverdem
Patient Money
WHEN I stock up on ibuprofen (my painkiller of choice), I typically buy a 500-count bottle of a store brand like Kirkland or Rite Aid. After all, ibuprofen is ibuprofen. Each pill costs me about 3 cents — or only one-third the cost of 9-cent Advil.
Yet, when it comes to vitamins — which I take only when I feel run down — I turn to name brands like Centrum or Nature Made. My thinking has been: Why mess around with quality when it comes to the essential ABCs?
But now that I’ve done some research, I might soon change my vitamin-buying ways. Read on to find out why.
Americans love vitamins. About half of adults take a daily multivitamin, according to industry data. And according to some theories, the economic downturn has inspired them to fortify themselves by swallowing more.
Sales over the last decade had been growing by about 4 percent annually. But this year, as more people are taking their health into their own hands, perhaps hoping to stave off doctor bills, vitamin sales are expected to grow by 8 percent to a total of $9.2 billion, according to Nutrition Business Journal, a market researcher and publisher.
About 42 percent of shoppers purchase their vitamins at natural and...
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But what if you don’t eat well or are chronically stressed out? Then, Professor Rimm says, there may be some benefit from taking a multivitamin. “Certain subgroups, including women of child-bearing age attempting to get pregnant, may need specific supplements, like folic acid and omega-3,” he added...
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FIND A REPUTABLE SOURCE Vitamins and minerals are commodity items, and every manufacturer has access to the same ingredients. For that reason, researchers and scientists say paying more for a name brand won’t necessarily buy you better vitamins...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
We use New Chapter Organics as well as some other high quality, relatively expensive brands. Here’s they deal: the really cheap drugstore crap is from CHINA. How much do you trust them?
There are plenty of ways to save money. Not with your food or vitamins.
I dig it, when I'm fighting Vampires, I only drink the vitamin water.
Whole Foods has a good selection, but try iHerb.com for better pricing on the same items you are getting at Whole Foods...
It’s mainly for convenience that I buy at WF. I don’t have the patience to wait for them to be sent. :~/ lol I’ll check out your site though, cause if the savings is big enough, it might sway me!
iHerb has a rich library of information on all the various vitamins, herbs and supplements etc...in each category you will finds scores of brands from which to make a decision, complete with reviews, etc. We find it is a good source for information on various supplements. And no, we do not represent iHerb, we are just a customer... If you want good oil of oregano as a bronchial supplement, then they have it in various brands, prices and sizes and types... We use the oil of oregano during cold and flu season sparingly. Three drops of the stuff in a glass of water two times a day for up to a week at most. Anymore than that is not good for your innards...But the stuff does wonders.
I remember at one point taking vitamins.
They made my pee bright yellow, so I stopped taking them.
This represents the extent of my experience with the subject.
Probiotic formulas made sense, but they all gave me the gut gurgles. I never could get used to them.
Meal replacement diet shakes all either gave me gas or nasty, stiff painful doodys. No matter how much fruit and veggies I ate.
And that’s not even mentioning the body-building supplements, sheesh! Way to blow a million bucks!
Sounds like maybe you weren’t drinking enough water?
[[Probiotic formulas made sense, but they all gave me the gut gurgles. I never could get used to them.]]
Me either- only thing I take now are Chromium picolinate, and trying otu B-12- the one I mentioned-
[[And that’s not even mentioning the body-building supplements, sheesh! Way to blow a million bucks!
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Beleive me, I’ve spent a ton of money- having Crohn’s and Fibromyalgia, I guess I got desperate for a ‘cure’ and beleived a lot of the ‘research’ and ‘clinical trials’ these companies suppsoedly did- then when looking into the actual trials, I saw they were ‘inconclusive’ or not very helpful, and htose that were, coulda been chalked up to placebo effect- then I started becomign more andm ore suspicious over time, and finally smartened up a bit- no more spending for me- I’ve resigned myself to hte fact that the Good Lord doesn’t want me to find the answer pill, and have resigned myself to simpyl accepting that I’m always gonna feel cruddy (I discovered after trying many different thigns, and wasting a LOT of money of bogus claims from different brands and concoctions of vits mins and herbs, that I can feel really cruddy, medium cruddy, or pretty cruddy at best- but any way I slice it, it’s gonna be cruddy)
My motto now is ‘life is what it is, and that is that’ ,and I try to weigh cost of somethign to how much it helps, and for the cost of vitimins, nothign helped significantly enough to even write home about and cost me an arm and a leg to try. Oh well. (and besides, I might have even doen myself harm, as I’ve had to have several surgeries which I suspect mighta been because I mucked things up by messign with mins vits and herbs- but it coulda just been gonna happen anyways- hard to tell- now I just try to get vits andm ins out of food naturally, and leave it at that
Vitamins, bah! Globull warming writ small, if you ask me! Spending money just to urinate richer, and there’s always a new need, a different approach, some modification, some new fad.
Just eat more chocolate, you’ll be fine.
[[There are plenty of ways to save money. Not with your food]]
Road kill aint so basd once you get used to it
If anyone wants GOOD vitamins — all natural — that are made in the USA, you can FReepmail me.
Of course chocolate is part of my daily supplement!
I second that theory! :~D
Buyer beware! Made in CHINA!
Vitamin D May Be Tied to Heart Disease Via Genes
Finding could aid in eventual development of screening test, researcher says
Posted December 3, 2009
THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) — New research points to the possibility of a genetic link between vitamin D and heart disease.
People with high blood pressure who had a gene variant that reduces vitamin D activation in the body were found to be twice as likely as those without the variant to have congestive heart failure, the study found.
I take potassium otherwise I get cramps in my legs. It works!
Where can you buy vitamins NOT from China?
It felt like enough ...
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