The Safety of Supplements
Food for Thought: The Joys and Benefits of Living Vegan
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2008
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Though I lament the fact that so many people look for easy solutions to their health problems and think that the answer lies in a pharmaceuticals, I also worry that people look to vitamin and mineral supplements as a shortcut to health. Though supplements may be essential when there is a true deficiency or need, they can be unnecessary at best or detrimental at worst when we use them as a substitute for a healthful diet. Join me as I talk about the safety - or lack thereof - of antioxidant supplements, (namely beta carotene, vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C, selenium, and zinc); about whether or not we need to supplement such things as iron, folic acid, calcium, vitamin D, and DHA; and about the best multivitamin to take, assuming, of course, that it is necessary to take a multivitamin.
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm and Welcome to Food for Thought. My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro from Compassionate Cooks. |
| 0:21.6 | I founded Compassionate compassionate cooks to empower people, |
| 0:24.8 | to make informed food choices, and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. |
| 0:30.1 | I do this through cooking classes, an online cookbook, lectures and workshops, articles and essays, |
| 0:37.2 | this podcast, and a cooking DVD. |
| 0:39.8 | I also have a cookbook called The Joy of vegan baking which you can learn more about at |
| 0:44.9 | Joy of vegan baking.com. I also encourage you to join our message board which you can find |
| 0:51.1 | through our website www.W. Compassionate cooks.com |
| 0:55.0 | it's a wonderful way to connect with other listeners, |
| 0:58.0 | cooking class students, and other people who are using |
| 1:01.0 | compassionate cooks as a resource. |
| 1:03.7 | Before we get started on our topic today, |
| 1:06.4 | let me just send out a huge thank you to today's sponsor, Jill Forest. |
| 1:11.0 | Thank you, Jill. |
| 1:12.4 | Jill wrote me a lovely email which said the following. I turned |
| 1:17.4 | vegetarian at the age of 25. I'm now 33 due mainly to living with a |
| 1:22.4 | vegetarian and partly due to moving to a cottage where we |
| 1:26.3 | yearly watched lambs running around in the fields, leaping in happiness one day and disappearing the next. I felt liberated by my decision to stop eating |
| 1:35.8 | meat. It was only upon listening to your podcast, being new to podcast, these were my first |
| 1:40.9 | introduction, came a realization that I was not doing enough. |
| 1:45.0 | I did not understand the violation of dairy cows like the meat eaters I tried to engage in a dialogue with I never gave it much thought. |
| 1:52.0 | It is to your credit that my decision to adopt a view dialogue with I never gave it much thought. |
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