Must we all take horse pills? Need advice, please.

KayLaw

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:22 PM
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Must we all take horse pills? Need advice, please.

I have a 17-year-old son who is a vegetarian. I do my best to feed him a balanced diet but need a multi-vitamin with iron for insurance. Every vitamin I buy these days reminds me of the huge "horse pills" once reserved for pregnant women. He just hates them. Does anyone know of a small pill like the One-a-Days used to be?

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philosophie_en_rose

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:28 PM
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1. Would a liquid work?

Maybe mixed with something tasty?

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KayLaw

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:35 PM
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5. We tried that.

It was fine for about a week, then it changed color and flavor.

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ismnotwasm

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:28 PM
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2. Isn't there a chewable Vitamin for adults now?

I've been meaning to look into it myself. I hate taking pills.

How complete they are vitamin wise, I'm not sure

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KayLaw

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:37 PM
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6. I forgot to mention.

He likes Scooby Doo vitamins but he's not supposed to chew anything that hard because of his braces.

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KitchenWitch

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:32 PM
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3. They have gummi vitamins for children

Give him two.

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KayLaw

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:38 PM
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7. Do they have gelatin?

He won't accept that - horse hooves.

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flvegan

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:35 PM
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4. If you don't find one, check this out

Edited on Sat Apr-21-07 04:35 PM by flvegan

http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/iron.htm

It's about iron and the vegetarian diet. Worth a look, at least.

I have nothing to add about the vitamin, though. I think they're all horse pills these days.

edit: spelling

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KayLaw

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:44 PM
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8. Thanks.

Not what I was looking for but it gave me some ideas. He's crazy about spinach and quinoa and he eats tofu every day. Maybe they're making the horse pills to convince us we're getting a big nutritional
bang for our bucks.

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flvegan

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:53 PM
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11. I thought that this, in particular

might be helpful:

"Vitamin C acts to markedly increase absorption of non-heme iron. Adding a vitamin C source to a meal increases non-heme iron absorption up to six-fold which makes the absorption of non-heme iron as good or better than that of heme iron"

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eyesroll

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:45 PM
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9. Honestly? Children's chewables are fine for adults.

Look at the label -- they'll tell you how much of what vitamins and minerals are in there. Most are right around 100% (some are a bit more because little kids need more of some vitamins than adults do).

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uppityperson

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Sat Apr-21-07 04:49 PM
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10. Emergen-C comes powdered and fizzes when you mix it.

I found it in food coop, also in healthy food stores and even in Safeway (big chain store)on sale. It comes in lots of flavors and yes, you can open a package and dip your finger in it and lick it off, just make sure you drink water later (this will make you burp too).

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Left Is Write

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Sat Apr-21-07 05:21 PM
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12. Flintstones vitamins.

I like them, and I'm 40. There's no reason adults can't take them.

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Kali

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Sat Apr-21-07 09:22 PM
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13. Safeway makes a small round coated red vitamin like you are thinking of

Not sure if amounts are as much as others (they also make an oblong larger tab with iron that makes everybody in my house have a few minutes of puke-feeling about 30 minutes after taking - we don't use those anymore)

Remember this is an American obsession (we have expensive urine because mose of these supplements just pass through) - even on a vegetarian diet you should be getting most essential vitamins and minerals - I think there is just a bit of risk for some amino acids, but for vitimins he should be ok

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