Muscles, Speed, and Lies (book)

Shute wrote:
[...]

> <snip> I was aware of a lot of things about the RDA. I know they
> had talked about updating it at one point but I don't know if they
> ever did. I just think it is important to eat a variety of foods to make
> sure your covering your bases. I wish there where better ways to
> rate my individual nutrition needs and design a program around it.

Don't dieticians or nutritionists, heck, your family doctor for that
matter, don't they all have the ability to take blood tests or hair
analysis that can offer some indication of what is deficient in your
system?

(Googles)

I used _blood, hair analysis for vitamin deficiency_ as my search
string:

http://www.quackwatch.org/01Quackery...pics/hair.html

Ha! There's irony, perhaps, as the book's author, Lightsey, is listed
as an advisor to www.quackwatch.org/. Ah, the cycle of life. D

Lightsey notes that, "multielemental analysis of human hair is not a
valid technique for identifying an individual's current bodily excesses
or deficiencies of essential or nonessential elements. Nor does it
provide a valid basis for recommending vitamins, minerals, or other
dietary supplements," according to info found at the Web page
associated with the URL above.

Shute, I'd say your idea of eating a variety of foods to make sure
you're covering your nutritional bases is a smart idea.

--
Curt

Greg Graham wrote:
> Curt wrote:
> > I checked the book's index and saw Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA)
> > and Recommended Daily Intake (RDI)...
>
> Thanks for the informative post, Curt. I've been away from newsgroups
> for several years, so it's good to see that the signal-to-noise ratio
> is > 0.

You're welcome, Greg, but there's at least one who would disagree on
your signal-to-noise assessment. ;o)

> A friend of mine recommended Advocare supplements,

http://www.advocare.com/

Klaxons are sounding as my MLM security alarm has been activated, Greg.


Even if it's not MLM, the first thing I do when looking at supplements
is to do a cost-per-gram analysis. I mean, sure, quality is more
important than cost, but, hey, I'm paying for this schtufff.

Advocare's one product is their Spark Energy Drink. At $19.95 for 14
packets, that's about a buck forty-three per packet. But each packet
only contains 15 grams of that product! Do the math. That's 210 grams
of product for twenty bucks. Okay, nearly. That's about ten cents per
gram.

My big bucket of Vitargo costs a mere four cents per gram. Okay, okay,
they're totally different products, but, hey, I think it's all placebo
so even if it's NOT all the same, well, it's all the same and,
therefore, I'd like my waste-of-money to be cost effective.

Ahem.

My vitamins cost me about ten bucks for 200 servings and a serving of
Body Fortress amino acids (another ten bucks for 60 servings) added to
my multi-vitamin and mineral will just about equal a serving of
Advocare's Spark. Doing a bit more math, that's about twenty bucks for
14 servings versus that same twenty bucks for at least 60 servings of
the amino-vitamin combination I have on hand already. Could Advocare's
product be that much more effective and energizing? Maybe. But for the
price, I'll never know.

> which I've tried for over a month. They have seemed to help me have
> more energy, which has led me to exercise more (running, elliptical,
> and weights), and I'm seeing some encouraging results. Now I want
> to get more serious with the diet and weights workout. I think I
> understand the exercise side well enough, but there is so much
> conflicting information about nutrition out there.

Hey, I totally agree with you on there being, seemingly, a ton of
conflicting information about nutrition out there. And, well, although
I won't be purchasing any Advocare products, I'm certainly glad to read
about your success with their supplements and wish you continued good
workouts, Greg.

> Greg

--
Curt

"EatMe" <trollsblow@hotmail.com> schreef:

> The trouble with gubmn't meddling in everything is the attempt to apply
> a one size fits all solution to everyone, e.g., BMI as a measurement of
> fitness...

I know a few guys in lousy shape who have a BMI of aprox. 25. Mine is 35,
but i assure everyone i am in a lot better shape.

Doctors who use BMI as a measurement of health shoot be shot in the back of
their heads!

--
Pete, The New & Improved Version

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