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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / March 2004Suppliments
I have been doing induction for a week and a half. I started taking a multi-vitamin at the beginning as well as a B complex. It was just a vitamin my wife picked up at the suggestion of the local pharmacist. I was looking at it today and noticed in the ingredient list it contains iron. I know the Atkin's diet specificly calls for a non-iron vitamin. Can anyone tell me why and if I should immediately stop taking them or take them until I can get the right ones. I am thinking of purchasing my next ones from the Atkin's web site. Thanks in advance for any help. Rob No clue here, I dont remember reading iron was forbidden. I'm paranoid but sounds like a scam so you have to buy a $20 bottle of pills. Good ol Centrium has worked fine for me. > I have been doing induction for a week and a half. I started taking a > multi-vitamin at the beginning as well as a B complex. It was just a vitamin [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Rob Centrum doesn't have iron in it. The reason for no iron is that when you are eating a lot of meat and dark green vegetables you are probably getting enough iron in your diet and too much iron can cause problems. In news:DSb2c.30669$rB4.25833@bignews6.bellsouth.net, Chrono-Z <wdjahill@bellsouth.net> stated | No clue here, I dont remember reading iron was forbidden. I'm | paranoid but sounds like a scam so you have to buy a $20 bottle of [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] || || Rob > I have been doing induction for a week and a half. I started taking a > multi-vitamin at the beginning as well as a B complex. It was just a vitamin > my wife picked up at the suggestion of the local pharmacist. I was looking > at it today and noticed in the ingredient list it contains iron. I know the > Atkin's diet specificly calls for a non-iron vitamin. If you're an older man or a post menopausal woman it's easy to take too much iron, which is very bad for you. There are multi-vits formulated for older folk which do not contain iron. If you're an older man or a post menopausal woman it's easy to take too much iron, which is very bad for you. There are multi-vits formulated for older folk which do not contain iron. ---------------------------------------- Centrum makes this type of supplement, it's called "Centrum Silver" But if you don't mind shopping in KMart they carry the generic brand Vitasmart that it calls itself "Complete Senior". It is comparable to the national brand name ones and is a much better deal for your money. Marty > I have been doing induction for a week and a half. I started taking a > multi-vitamin at the beginning as well as a B complex. It was just a vitamin [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > the right ones. I am thinking of purchasing my next ones from the Atkin's > web site. Thanks in advance for any help. No need to get them from Atkins - just look for vitamins formulated for those over 50, they usually don't have it. I take Sundown 50+. They cost around $20 for 90 pills, but they're one a day rather than three a day like the Atkins vitamins (so the same amount of pills lasts three times as long, <g>), and I think they're comparable in nutrient value. I am of course not a medical professional, but I would think you could take yours until you get ones with no iron. It takes quite a long time for overconsumption of iron to cause irreversable problems. One reason you really don't need to supplement iron while on Atkins is that a lot of the foods you eat contain enough iron as it is. Almost all meats have it (beef contains the most), as do almonds and broccoli. The RDA for a man or non-menstruating woman is only 8mg a day, which is normally easily met via diet alone - especially while following Atkins. More importantly though, you don't want to overconsume iron because your body has difficulty getting rid of excess amounts (especially if you're a man and don't give blood regularly, or woman not having periods). This can become critical if you have undiagnosed hemachromatosis, a hereditary disease that causes the body to store excess iron. Hemachromatosis is usually completely asymptomatic, and often isn't discovered until later in life when much permanent damage has been done (especially to the liver, in the form of permanent scarring [cirrhosis], and if not halted soon enough, liver failure). You can read more about hemachromatosis here: http://tinyurl.com/3cldy. Undiagnosed/untreated hemachromatosis (combined with years of daily alcohol consumption, which hastened the liver damage) is what killed my father. :( > More importantly though, you don't want to overconsume iron because your > body has difficulty getting rid of excess amounts (especially if you're a [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > with years of daily alcohol consumption, which hastened the liver damage) is > what killed my father. :( Are you getting yearly serum ferritin testing along with liver function test? Since your father had the disease, you are a carrier of hemochromatosis, but if your mother was also a carrier, then you may be affected. It is likely that your fathers siblings also have it. The chances are one in four children will have the disease, some will be carriers, and others will be negative. Two of my brothers have hemochromatosis, I tested positve for the disease (but show no symptoms yet), one was negative and one refused testing. Both of my children are carriers. Kathy > > Undiagnosed/untreated hemachromatosis (combined > > with years of daily alcohol consumption, which hastened the liver damage) [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > chances are one in four children will have the disease, some will be > carriers, and others will be negative. Yes, I make sure they check both - Dad's doctor was good about making sure that we (kids) knew what needed to be checked by our own docs (and Dad was an only child, btw - no sibs). Mom definitely doesn't have the disease, but as none of us have had genetic testing we don't know if she's a carrier. So we get our blood tests, <g>. I make sure before every physical that my blood-draw order to the lab includes both tests (because sometimes my doc forgets to order one or both). So far they have all been within normal range, but I will always be tested yearly. Though I'm premenopausal (still have functional ovaries), I'm at the same risk level as a man because I don't have periods (hysterectomy). So for me it's definitely important to be checked regularly, because I have no monthly blood loss to shed excess iron through (if I should ever develop the disease myself). |
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