Too much of anything can be harmful. You can OD on water.

Too much of anything can be harmful. You can OD on water.

Like you would know. You're a farkin' TFer, for fark's sake.

WILL
MAAAAAA!!!

While further study could find no link between multivitamins use and risk of developing localized prostate cancer

and

The newsletter pointed out this study -- limited in scope and contradicting other studies showed no connection between prostate cancer and multivitamins

This is why people ignore health studies.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to score some crack.

5000_gallons_of_toothpaste: Too much of anything can be harmful. You can OD on water.

So watch the toothpaste, buddy.

Yabba dabba don't.

Was the obvious tag on vacation?

Didn't "they" know this in the 70's?

/no news like old news

cerberus9: Was the obvious tag on vacation?

Didn't "they" know this in the 70's?

/no news like old news

Nah, in the 70s they established that pop rocks and coke killed young TV pitchmen.

i swear these headlines get more and more idiotic with each passing day

whats next, "not enough air can kill you"?

Mr. Coffee Nerves: If being hooked on Betty Rubble is wrong, I don't want to be right!

/no, not the Rosie O'Donnell version
//just threw up my shoes

Mild hangover + Rosie O = very queezy sensation

Chewable? Pansy.

Other than some minerals like calcium I thought you just pissed out the excess?

and I thought calcium was only a problem for people with kidney/gall stone problems?

As much as I hate these, this fitz.

if you are a smoker, you should stay way far away from href="http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20030722/smoking-beta-carotene-pills-bad- combo" target="_blank">beta carotene (new window)

Haven't we had this discussion already?

And didn't we conclude that this study was a bunch of shiat?

Interesting, but who takes multiple multivitamins per day?

I'm wondering if the kind of person who takes more than one multivitamin per day is the kind of person who does other stupid stuff as well?

I love how the 'experts' say that you really need to take a vitamin because it is impossible to get all the nutrients you need from your diet. It's just such an obvious crock o' shiat. People who don't live on fast food, Coca Cola and Skittles are perfectly healthy as long as they aren't vegan.

/ya, I went there
//being a vegan is UNHEALTHY

logruszed: Other than some minerals like calcium I thought you just pissed out the excess?

You'll piss out any excess vitamins that are water soluble. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat soluble and can accumulate in the body.

blackminded: This is why people ignore health studies.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to score some crack.

Closing tags is for losers.

/losers!

Really?

/I wonder why Americans are obese/fat farks?
//They don't read

Mr. Coffee Nerves: If being hooked on Betty Rubble is wrong, I don't want to be right!

/no, not the Rosie O'Donnell version
//just threw up my shoes

Hell, I just threw up in your shoes, too!

/ecch

MonK3Wr3nch: It's just such an obvious crock o' shiat. People who don't live on fast food, Coca Cola and Skittles are perfectly healthy as long as they aren't vegan.

/ya, I went there
//being a vegan is UNHEALTHY


Then you were doing it wrong.

MonK3yWr3nch: //being a vegan is UNHEALTHY

Change that to "being a vegan makes it harder to be HEALTHY", and I'll agree with you.

cal surfer: So watch the toothpaste, buddy.

I don't eat it, I dispense it. Ask your mom. She'll vouch for me.

98% more likely to die of prostate cancer??????!?!?!?!?! I'm no math major but that means I have to kill like 900 kittens a day!!!!

MonK3yWr3nch: being a vegan is UNHEALTHY

Oh yeah? How so?

"I could have told you that."

//obscure?

Well, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

gradatim: Too much of anything can be harmful. You can OD on water.

Like you would know. You're a farkin' TFer, for fark's sake.

I second that

phaedrusiszen: Oh yeah? How so?

Because it usually makes you preach to an angry meat eater about how eating meat will shorten their life by clogging their veins with cholesterol and they are hurting animals and it makes them impotent but you will live forever because you don't eat meat and you are a total sex machine because your skinny vegan girlfriend tells you so and you are so happy... then you get choked to death by the angry meat eater.

Mugato: Well maybe people who engage in bad health habits, including bad diet might take more multi-vitamins to make up for it...hence, more multi-vitamins = cancer.

It's the whole correlation != causation thing.


I came here to say exactly that. It's kinda like the studies where they say people that don't regularly brush their teeth are xx% more likely to have heart disease. That well-rounded, healthy lifestyle thing.

Just say that being a vegan is unethical.

People become Vegan because they anthropomorphize the animals, thinking of them as more 'worthy' than plants.

But Plants are sweet, harmless creatures that don't harm anything (with a few exceptions like the evil venus fly trap).

Animals are viscous, evil scumbags that rape and kill other animals in the wild.

Eat the evil animals, save the holy plants.

Well, DUH! If you didn't already know this then...

when i was a kid i ate a whole bottle of flintsones chewables...it turns out that when your organs run out of places to store excess crap, bad things happen.

is there just a lack of farkworthy news today?
did Florida take the day off??

Never mind the billions of rodents, snakes, birds, and insects murdered yearly growing all those vegetables the vegans eat.

That's why I eat beef. I can kill just one animal and eat well all winter!

phaedrusiszen: MonK3yWr3nch: being a vegan is UNHEALTHY

Oh yeah? How so?

Well I think it's going a bit far, as it's certainly possible to get all one's nutrients from plant matter... but I have noticed that the long-term vegans tend to be underweight, incredibly pale, and have sunken eyes that have just a touch of crazy in them.

Of course that's just my limited experience.

A friend of mine who worked in a health food store for three years said she didn't know if crazy people tended to be vegan or if vegan diets made people crazy. All she knew is that there was a disproportionate number of wackadoo's among the hard core vegans. The clients that would go on screaming rants about blue tennis shoes, and then switch in mid-stream to a delightful rendition of "I'm So Pretty" from West Side Story, were invariably the vegans.

You know how some commercials, or PSAs, or studies will come out saying things like "the body needs 8 12oz glasses of this", or "4 servings of that" and the nutrition label have the daily value of potassium and magnesium and such. It seems like a lot of food. And it makes me wonder if there are any people out there that get ALL the nutrients they need from eating normal food and no supplements. And they do this everyday(or almost). Is anyone here like that?

gradatim: Too much of anything can be harmful. You can OD on water.

Like you would know. You're a farkin' TFer, for fark's sake.

.... touche'

oldass31: You know how some commercials, or PSAs, or studies will come out saying things like "the body needs 8 12oz glasses of this", or "4 servings of that" and the nutrition label have the daily value of potassium and magnesium and such. It seems like a lot of food. And it makes me wonder if there are any people out there that get ALL the nutrients they need from eating normal food and no supplements. And they do this everyday(or almost). Is anyone here like that?



Tries her hardest everyday to get every last nutrient without any of that stupid supplement stuff.

I'm wary of those multivitamins that have 2500% RDA of everything and make your piss look like highlighter ink. It's not exactly surprising that ingesting ridiculous amounts of vitamins (or pretty much anything, for that matter) can affect your health.

oldass31: You know how some commercials, or PSAs, or studies will come out saying things like "the body needs 8 12oz glasses of this", or "4 servings of that" and the nutrition label have the daily value of potassium and magnesium and such. It seems like a lot of food. And it makes me wonder if there are any people out there that get ALL the nutrients they need from eating normal food and no supplements. And they do this everyday(or almost). Is anyone here like that?

I've always wanted to put that question to a panel of nutritionists - have them put together a days worth of food that meets the RDA in everything. It would definitely be a lot of food, or else they would have to pull out some weird vegetables and animal meat no one average person has ever heard of or eaten before.

That is all well and good for the average joe.
How about the person that spends 2 hours a day at the gym working ?
Someone who needs the extra nutrients so their body can actually function at a normal rate.

gert-b-frobe: How about the person that spends 2 hours a day at the gym working ?
Someone who needs the extra nutrients so their body can actually function at a normal rate.

If you spend 2 hours a day at the gym, you're a professional athlete or model, and you're a fraction of a percent of the population of the U.S.

Of course, if you spend 2 hours a day at the gym, then you've already researched nutrition and supplements, and you're well aware of what your body needs, so you'll just ignore this article as you realize it's not applicable to you.

I think my prostate is OK, but I sure do enjoy the exam

DUH! They're called ONE-A-DAY vitamins for a reason!