vitamins
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Afternoon Inquisition
AI: Free Range Organic Gluten Free Kale
Food. What the hell, right? Who even knows what’s healthy anymore? I’m pretty much at the point where if I see something in the health-food aisle, I assume it’s stupid, over priced, and overhyped. I feel like just going ahead and letting my kids become illiterate… which is apparenlty exactly the kind of thing that happens if you ever let…
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Ask Surly Amy: Vampires and Vitamins
Dear Surly Amy, I don’t take vitamins. Given my fortunate resources, I aim to get needed nutrients from my diet; plus sketchy regulation, paired with the cesspit of horseshit claims made by the supplement industry, tuns me off. The catch: a while back I moved to night shift, and my body went to hell. My hair is dull, breaks, and…
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Ask Surly Amy: Prenatal Vitamins and Isotonicity
Surly Amy, I’m thinking about pregnancy, so my nutritionist suggested I start on prenatal vitamins. Well, that part I’m not skeptical about. But then she went on to say I should buy powdered vitamins that you mix with water, because then that mixture is “isotonic with your body’s internal pressure” and so “you absorb 100% of the nutrients.” This set…
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