31 oct 04
Multivitamins are good, or so my mother says, and you should always listen to your mother. I have this problem with multivitamins, though, in that I have trouble taking them. The bottle reads, “Take one daily with food.” Yeah, when they say “with food,” they are NOT KIDDING. It is pretty common to have a nauseus reaction to taking one on an empty stomach. My problem is I get that nauseus reaction just about any time, food or no. In fact, I had pretty much given up on the whole thing.
I think it is kind of interesting how we chemically supplement our diets. Even if you eat five or six small, healthy, varied meals, you will likely still come up short on many of the minerals the FDA decided it was important your body to have every day. Makes you wonder what the original plan for human nutrition was.
Anyway, this week, while at Target, I had an epiphany. Children’s multivitamins! They come in cute shapes and colors and are CHEWABLE and have basically the same vitamins and minerals as their adult counterparts. So, I am back on the multivitamin train and will hopefully eventually work myself up off Flintstones shapes.
emersongeek / 31 oct 2004 / 10:52 p.m.
There’s nothing wrong with Flintstones vitamins—plus they’re easier to travel with. George Carlin has a great monologue about traveling with a big jar of unmarked pills…which might get one into trouble unless one takes Flintstones vitamins.
“Look! It’s a little purple Dino!”
Matthew / 31 oct 2004 / 11:21 p.m.
I’m a Flinstone’s Kid!!!
I forgot about kiddie multi’s too, sadly. I have found, at least for me, that I only get nausea when I’m taking multis with mineral suppliments. When it’s just multivitamins I’m fine. Wierd, huh? I learned my lesson when taking two one morning caused me to miss my bus because I was actually throwing up. How sad is it when things that are supposed to be good for you make you vomit?
In conclusion:
I’m a flinstone’s kid!!
Jason / 01 nov 2004 / 11:40 a.m.
Grandma says to supplement the multivitamin with Esther-C and Esther-E. She says the Esther somehow does you some good. I don’t know what it does. Wasabi peanuts are good for an immune system boost.
justin / 01 nov 2004 / 1:44 p.m.
my brother had that same problem (the nausea), so he started taking the children’s chewables (also a flinstone’s kid), and he’s been fine.
filmmaker / 01 nov 2004 / 3:38 p.m.
If they started marketing children’s vitamins to an older demographic, profits would shoot through the roof.
And The Price Is Right could actually market a commercial for that overwhelming college audience that it seems to have now.
Crystal / 01 nov 2004 / 6:21 p.m.
I was just gonna talk about this today, too - EVERYTIME I take any kind of vitamin I get nauseus - with or without food. I decided to begin taking them again yesterday after I realized how brittle my nails had gotten and promptly threw up three times. NOT PLEASANT.
your mom / 01 nov 2004 / 7:42 p.m.
I take a multi-vitamin every day. No nausea, no vomiting. or as we say in medical lingo: mvi 1 qd, no n/v. I guess if a children’s mvi doesn’t cause any side effects then why not. And yes, for most people, taking a mvi or most any medication with food cuts down on the side effects. Of course there are always some medications that need to be taken on an empty stomach - but that topic is for another post/another day!
Dano / 01 nov 2004 / 10:20 p.m.
When I was five I liked those Flintstones vitamins a little too much. I somehow managed to eat an entire bottle in one sitting, my parents freaked and took me to the ER. Apparently its almost impossible to OD on Vitamins.
Guess / 31 oct 2004 / 10:27 p.m.
You’re so cute.