Today's Journal
WISDOM LIST #21
VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTSMost people take between 3 and 145 vitamins and supplements per day. This is besides the prescribed medications for various ailments which could be another 3-37 pills. This doesn’t include pills for headaches, to get rid of fat, protein pills, hair growing pills, getting rid of hair pills, eye drops, nose drops, ear drops. mouth drops, lip balm and all the alphabet pills (B, C, D, E, J, K, L, M, etc.).
“While vitamins and nutritional or dietary supplements can be beneficial to your health, they can also involve health risks. Notably, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have the authority to review dietary supplement products for safety and effectiveness before they are marketed. And with more than 90,000 different supplements on the market, it can be confusing to understand what is safe and what is not.
The FDA is responsible for regulating dietary supplements, we might think of them—because they're health products—as being a subcategory of medication …the FDA regulates them as a subcategory of food.” (American Medical Association) They are marketed as food and not medicine.
Even if a person were only taking 17,000 of the supplements per day, and not 90,000, it would still be a considerable amount. The trick is learning to hide the little pills inside of scrambles eggs or oatmeal so the person doesn’t spit out pills like our little doggies do when we hide them in their dog food.
Yea, one shouldst read all thy labels carefully on thy little plastic bottles.
“You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Jesus