Scientists Unveil 'Supercarrot'

Since everthing has vitiamins added including shampoo, what happens to us when we are over vitiamized?

Hi Guest.

The answer is, you die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here in the UK there are a lot of people who suffer after taking an unintentional overdose of vitamins, particulary D,C and Bcomplex.

Spencer.

well with too much calcium you usually get kidney stones--which are kinda fun if you hadn't heard, definitely worth the amount of money the R&D of these carrots likely cost...

Hi Guest.

I have had kidney stones, they are not much fun I can assure you!

Usually to much intake of C vitamen will pass out of your body when you urinate, but your kidney's can only tolerate so much, after which you will suffer kidney damage!

Your body also needs minerals like copper, zinc, calsium and selenium, but too much of these will also cripple you. Vitamen and mineral intake has to be balanced, too little and you have a big problem health wise, too much and your health will also suffer. Ask any doctor and he will tell you that this is true!

To combat these problems and keep a healthy body and mind you need to eat a balanced diet, saturated fat is also very unhealthy, as you can see all around you.

So, forget fortified foods, eat a balanced diet, you have been warned!!!

Spencer.

My dear friend Spencer, I am really amazed that you had made no mention of that most ancient and natural compound reffered to by several names e.g. inuit olive oil, osouq or as it is regularly called from the shaman's medicine bag, seal oil.

the only thing healthier than that naturally biofiltered food source is human breast milk.

for the rest of you if you wish get your hands on

the omega3 connection by dr. cosmas ho flanker press

healing the seven types of .a.d.d. by dr. daniel amen and

the greatest one is written by kayyla t. daniels the whole soy story, it is my opinion this last one will be VERRRY hard to find, and again it is my opinion the lady may have run afoul of some very large corporate interests in health and nutrition by having had the cojones to print what she has.

/da ber

Hi Guest.

Yes, any form of polyunsaturated fat like olive, or fish oil is very beneficial to humans, and today too many people are consuming too much saturated fats!

Here in the UK over the past five years there has been a lot of publicity about these dangerous saturated fats, and these days most of our population have actually taken this advice seriously.

Any natural plant oil is better for you than most land animal fats, but they are cheaper, thus we have now an underclass of obese people. Now animal fat like pork or beef fat is not so bad in small amounts, but, and this is a very big but, To many people seem to be unable to forgo these fats in large amounts!

Now, as we live in a Big Brother society here in the UK, people have had enough of being dictated to! The downside is that the population is getting fatter and fatter, and this has led to extremely bad health among the lower classes. It is no use telling these people how to eat healthily when their income is below the bread line!!!

Luckily there is a solution, ban all saturated fats from the populations diet???

Spencer.

"as we live in a Big Brother society here in the UK" followed by "Luckily there is a solution, ban all saturated fats from the populations diet..." leads one (this one anyway) to believe that it's less a dietary problem than a political problem...

The telling point, though, appears to be what may be an advertant pun ('Pun my word, sir, did you really MISS this one?!?) where you wrote: "...and this is a very big but..." which seems to BE the problem, all right, big butts. It strikes me as odd how not that many years ago, the poorer classes had lean, even gaunt appearances and the wealthier classes suffered overweight and gout. Now, the poor are morbidly obese from too much macaroni and imitation cheese, while the rich do pilates with Richard Simmons and Jane Fonda. The saying goes, "you can't be too rich or too thin". Maybe it's a form of natural selection at work...

Hi EnviroMan.

This is my answer to you!

I was born in march 1945 when we still had rationing here in the UK, in fact we had rationing all the way till 1952. Because of this I am very slim without one ounce of fat on my body and I go mountain climing at the age of 62.

Todays children could do well to go through what we went through during and after the second world war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spencer.

Hi Spencer,

There appears to be some dissent about the role of Polyunsaturates. As the adage says, 'All things in moderation'. The food industry does seem to make a lot of it's money from processing fat in one form or another.

Many people seem misled over the various types of fat, and the types of Cholesterol. (My memory aid is L_ousy Density Lipoproteins, and H_ealthy Density Lipoproteins). When my Doc put me on Statins quite some time back, I was surprised to be also given Folic acid supplement. I'd thought this was something that only pregnant women took. Apparently it helps de-fur the arteries. Nowadays people are routinely given Statins without even checking Cholesterol. Sounds insane to me, but the worried well are a big market. The availability of MRI scans to those who just want to check themselves is on the increase. I find this whole self-diagnosis thing alarming.

Vitamin supplements are no replacement for a good diet if a person is healthy. That link didn't mention some of the milder effect such as constipation (B Vits), or diarrhoea (Vit C)

Calcium-enriched carrots...why not -

Guess I'm just old-fashioned. But I got milk!

Might be a boon to the lactose-intolerant!

But doesn't the body require vitamin D and phosphorus in order to process the calcium? Better eat those carrots outdoors in the sunshine, and have a banana afterward.

I believe it's potassium vs phosphorus, but yes, a nice shredded carrot and sliced banana fruit salad, with maybe some raisins for iron, walnuts for B-complex, out on the verandah, why gosh, with a healthy lifestyle like that, who needs a daily dose of vitamins?

Hi EnviroMan.

Yes we need Potassium, but the amount of Potassium in our blood should balance with the Sodium in our blood! For years I have always had a deep longing for Salt (Na Cl), two years ago I collapsed and was rushed to hospital where I lay in a coma for five days. It turned out that my blood Potossium count was three times as high as it should be, while my blood sodium count was way too low, bordering on the level when I could die at any moment!

It took the doctors four weeks to get somewhere near a balance, meanwhile I had been on a drip containing a saline solution twice that of sea water. When asked, I told the doctors that I had not eaten a banana for two years, but from the age of 19 to 36 I ate a banana a day every lunch time. This it seems was the reason for my longing for salt, and now my body could not properly proccess Potassium!

I have always eaten a well balanced diet otherwise, so the moral of this is never eat too much of one thing. By the way, I now have to take two Sodium Cloride a day to keep me alive for the rest of my life!!!

Spencer.