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With the way people are taking large doses of vitamins, we are going to see that broccoli can kill you.
The amount of DHA in my Prenatal vitamin is about 20 times less then the DHA in my husbands brand. It is crazy. Why would his healthy eye version have so much more then my Prenatal? And there is no way to tell if he really needs that much because the claims behind fish oil tablets do not have to be scientifically proved because the vitamin industry is unregulated.
I don't know how much is safe for BB but it is in his yogurt and his formula. You can buy milk with DHA now. How much does a 1 year old need? I know how much Tylenol he should get. I know how much of an anti biotic. No idea about fish oil. We know what happens if you take too much Tylenol, it adversly effects your organs because you poison yourself (so don't take more then the recommended dosage) but we have no idea if the DHA in BB formula and yogurt is going to cause him to be at risk for prostate cancer in 30 years.
We won't be buying the milk with DHA but the organic yogurt he gets has DHA in it.
The thing is, 30 years ago we didn't worry about vitamins because there was not a market for them. Now we are health conscious (well, we pretend to be) and there are 9,000 health suppliments with no real science behind them but many people take them anyway.
The studies on multivitamins are inconclusive if they help you at all but by all means lets take 10 times the recommended dosage of vitamin X.
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