Need Multi-vitamin suggestions
Good morning Lovelies!
Can anyone recommend a good multivitamin I can gift to my 23 year (vegetarian-not-yet-vegan) daughter? I take Nature's Choice (without iron; I'm 49) her needs are different.
We're both concerned about her possible lack of enough protein too, but that's for another thread.
Thanks for ANY suggestions.
Jean
Re: Need Multi-vitamin suggestions
Can I ask why she needs a multi-vitamin? A healthy diet should give all she needs if she is veggie.
Re: Need Multi-vitamin suggestions
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RedWellies
Can I ask why she needs a multi-vitamin? A healthy diet should give all she needs if she is veggie.
I agree, a healthy vegan diet should not need to be supplemented with anything, and certainly should not be low in protein!
However certain vits and minerals *may* be lacking if she does not have fortified foods:
Iodine;
Vitamin B12;
Vitamin D.
Check out
http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nutrition/
for more info on all these.
Re: Need Multi-vitamin suggestions
Maybe you can take your daughter to the doctor's to get bloodwork done so they can see what she is low in.
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Thanks, TigerLilly. I have suggested the same last night and learned she recently had a complete work up and when asked about the results, she was told she's "the picture of health." They couldn't find any problems. She says she doesn't feel healthy. You can imagine her frustration.
Jean
Re: Need Multi-vitamin suggestions
Could it be depression?
I could eat the most healthiest meals ever, take my multi vitamin, make sure to get all my nutrients, but if I'm depressed, I still feel crappy.
Re: Need Multi-vitamin suggestions
The vegan essentials website has some good ones - if a little pricey. I was always very careful with my diet making sure I got the RDI of everything but an excess of this can cause a deficiency of that (zinc/copper for example) so a multi is a good idea. Make sure it includes iron, B12 and iodine and calcium as they were my main problems.
I've heard Omega 3s can help with depression though I haven't done any research.