Which Vitamins Should You Take?
The answer is, all of them or all that are available in over-the-counter supplements. This excludes the blood-clotting agent vitamin K, and vitamin P, commonly known as the bioflavonoids. These occur abundantly in fruits and vegetables, and are less subject to processing. Otherwise, take the entire combination, because vitamins work in teams. They support and enforce each
other.
Here is another example of what supplements will do for you. Arthritis sufferers have been benefited in numerous ways by adding a vitamin supplement to their diets. It is even more beneficial to get these vitamins in your food sources.
As there are many types of arthritis, and no two people are identical in their needs, the following, taken three times a day, is an approximate, and your physicians advice should be gotten before any diet changes, or regimes are begun.
500 IU Vitamin E
One tablespoon wheat-germ oil
500 mg. vitamin B complex
50 mg. pantothenic acid
A vitamin-mineral capsule
The wheat-germ oil provides additional vitamin E as well as minerals and other valuable nutrients; it also seems to lubricate the joints. The pantothenic acid is an important member of the vitamin B complex, and you can take extra because
it directly affects inflamed nerve endings.
This has shown to help many, and here is one person’s testimony. “I decided to try the formula for my bursitis. And I never had it again. It also relieved the twinges in my shoulders and elbows.” And one of the major things I learned
was that to get full benefit out of vitamins you have to take enough. Taking too few is like throwing a few teaspoons of water on a blazing fire.
What do we mean by need? We will speak of a person who is average-or even superior in health. Some people think it's all right to be
sick several times a year. The FDA thinks a normal healthy person misses just a few days work in a year, and has a serious illness every couple of years. That's actually the attitude they use in deciding the recommended daily allowances for
the person. But shouldn't health be freedom from disease, free of doctors, medicines or things that keep me from doing what I want to do when I'm well.
There is no average person. They give us several categories and try to fit everybody into them. Yet there are eighty different body types-not three or
four; at least twelve different average stomachs. Surgeons have found greater differences inside the heart than they do with people's exteriors. Even our enzymes are different. The only way to make RDA's helpful is to make them higher, so that people will get more than they need, but everybody will get what
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