A cool idea for helping out the community ..

Check it out.Considering I take vitamins by doctors order,I get them cheaper..and I take some others to make sure I am ok nutrition wise to supplement my food intake ,I find I feel better taking the vitamins,than when I don't..This idea it could possibly help a lot of people feel better,people that I suspect can only get really shitty nutrition,like the homeless...You might not agree with the things this guy says,but this idea is a good one.


CHARITABLE VITAMIN DISPENSARIES AND HOW TO OPEN ONE
It all started 20 years ago at a soup kitchen. I was volunteering a small bit of time at St. Joseph's house of Hospitality in inner-city Rochester, NY.

St. Joe's, as it is locally known, feeds about a hundred poor people
daily. Not everyone who comes in for the free lunch is starving, but some are. At the beginning of the first sitting, I happened to see one little boy, about 6 years old or so, who really seemed to be looking forward to his meal that day. I saw what he had set in front of him: an enormous helping of a simple type of goulash (macaroni, hamburger, tomato sauce).
"Are you really going to eat all that?" I asked him, smiling."Yes I am," he answered, with a far bigger smile.

And he was right, too. Did that kid ever eat. He finished his first
plateful so fast he must have inhaled it. He had seconds, and thirds, and quite possibly fourths that I wasn't fast enough to see. I had never witnessed a child eat that much before, and my own kids had hefty appetites of their own, let me tell you.The impression this made on me was pretty strong. It occurred to me, yummy and filling though goulash might be, that this child's overall
nutritional needs probably were not being met. He, and every other person off the street, needed a daily vitamin supplement as well as their daily bread. The staff at St.. Joe's unhesitatingly agreed, and with the help of donations, I raised enough money to provide a high-potency multivitamin to each person who wanted one, served right along with their free meal.This program was successful and expanded. In an interview with The Mother Earth News (Jan-Feb 1984, Issue 85,http://www.doctoryourself.com/motherearth.html ),
I told of additional benefits of vitamins for transients:

"Simple, easily available vitamins can actually fight drug addiction. I've written to (then First Lady) Nancy Reagan and expressed my support for her fight against drug abuse in children. And I told her of our work with our vitamin dispensary that serves the poor in Rochester. We have seen substance abuse trail off when individuals get adequate vitamin supplements. . . especially B vitamins and vitamin C in substantial quantities. I suggested to Mrs. Reagan that she help develop a national vitamin supplementation program. Naturally, all I got in reply was a polite letter from her press secretary. Yet I've talked to street people who were so drunk they couldn't stand up without my holding them. We get such alcoholics on vitamin C and B-complex, though, and those individuals can get off the booze. And that means a lot."

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