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Typically vitamin E supplements and multi-vitamins such as those sold at drug stores contain 100 to 400 international units of the nutrient. This is far more than the average daily intake of the vitamin, usually about 10 to 15 units, Rimm said...
While supplements can benefit, the "mega-dose," taking too much of a given nutrient, can be harmful, says Bleday. The mega-dose usually consists of 10 times...
...variety of food, especially orange fruit and green vegetables that are nutrient dense," Sonnenberg says. "Nowadays, there is more emphasis on eating fruit and vegetables during meals...
Whatever the prevalence of nutrient deficiency Johanna T. Dwyer, director of the Frances Stern Nutrition Center at New England Medical Center Hospital, stands firmly against consuming supplements...
...brain, consumer of about 20% of the body's energy, cannot burn fatty acids. It needs glucose, a form of sugar. And the major source of glucose in a starving body is protein. The first proteins to go are digestive enzymes in the stomach, pancreas and small intestine and nutrient-processing enzymes in the liver, no longer of much use anyway. Then the muscles begin to wither away, giving limbs a sticklike appearance...