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I stopped at the grocery store at lunch today to buy, among other things, some multi-vitamins. (I believe in getting your vitamin and mineral quotient from your regular diet, but I don't always eat as well as I should and I'm tired of getting a low iron count every other time that I try to donate blood.)

So. Anyway. It's a rather bewildering array of products to choose from in the vitamin/supplement section. What makes one better than another (other than price)? I finally just picked. Driving home I thought that it's a shame they don't make Flinstones chewable vitamins for adults. I would totally buy those if they did.

Unless they do make them and I just don't know about it. In which case, I'm missing out.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_tana_/]

What makes one better than the other? I've always been told that it all depends on whether or not it's absorbed and used by your body instead of passing through your system.

To check the effectiveness of a vitamin pill, try submerging one pill in a half cup of vinegar until it is completely dissolved - if it takes longer than an hour, this means that the pill may not be efficiently absorbed in the body. From this site. (http://www.trekfit.com/nc/nf_05.html)

Here's another in depth site. (http://www.meadjohnson.com/nutrition/basics/nocalnutrients.html) And another take on it. (http://dietandbody.com/Are_you_getting_vitamins.html)

[suzannemarie.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I'll check it out. Thanks!