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I was reading the labels of a vitamin bottle and noticed a ton of "100%"s on the back. Then on the OJ carton it says 120% of vitamin C, and on the carrot bag it says 350% of Vitamin A.
Basically, I take a vitamin in the morning, drink about 3 servings of OJ a day, and I love those itty bitty carrots. Is there a risk of ODing on vitamins?
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Someone here at college says he used to take so much Vitamin C that he reacts badly to significant amounts of it today. Then again, there's also someone here who drinks orange juice with breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) is different from many vitamins in that it isn't retained in the body for long, so it doesn't accumulate in the body. As far as I know, there aren't any terrible side-effects caused by large quantities of vitamin C, not in the quantities Sunspot is talking about in any case. Nobel prize winning chemist/biochemist Linus Pauling used to swear by it. I wouldn't worry about going over 300-400%, indeed doses this high are necessary for prompt effects if you have a cold, but it is my opinion that vitamin tablets are nowhere near as good as a balanced diet; whenever I've taken multivitamin/multimineral supplements I've found no real benefit, if anything I turn paler, so I've basically given up taking them on a regular basis.
(Of course, many people in your part of the world don't seem to know what a balanced diet *is*...)
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