I just read the side of a carton of apple juice, and it says:
1 x 250ml serving contains your entire reccomended daily allowance of vitamin C. This pack contains 4 x 250ml servings.
I've drunk two cartons of today, and half a carton of orange juice as well as a couple of satsumas because I think I'm getting a cold and my mummy always told me to get lots of vitamin C to combat/prevent colds.
tnf wrote:Too much anything is bad for you. But you'll piss most of it out. It's the fat soluble vitamins you want to avoid too much of if I am not mistaken...
Doesn't vitamin C also affect calcium processing in some ways? I thought it could lead to increased chance of kidney stones and other kidney problems..?
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Foo wrote:What kind of intake are we talking about here?
Well, if a quarter of a carton of apple juice is your reccomended intake, i usually drink at least one full carton, often two a day, ontop of that i have probably four pieces of fruit, so that's about 10x over the RDA. For breakfast I have either Toast or Bran Flakes. Then for tea I usually have rice, fish and vegetables for tea. It's a diet i've devised for myself in order to lose weight. I've lost about four stone in maybe 6 months \o. But it occurred to me I might be eating too much Vitamin C especially now in my attemt to shake this cold. and I wondered if I was doing myself more harm than good. If i just cut down the amount of juice i drink and replace it with tea/water then I'll be dandy.
Last edited by phantasmagoria on Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:14 am, edited 2 times in total.
Foo wrote:What kind of intake are we talking about here?
Well, if a quarter of a carton of apple juice is your reccomended intake, i usually drink at least one full carton, often two a day, ontop of that i have probably four pieces of fruit, so that's about 10x over the RDA. For breakfast I have either Toast or Bran Flakes. Then for tea I usually have rice, fish and vegetables for tea. It's a diet i've devised for myself in order to lose weight. I've lost about four stone in maybe 6 months \o. But it occurred to me I might be eating too much Vitamin C especially now in my attemt to shake this cold. and I wondered if I was doing myself more harm than good. If i just cut down the amount of juice i drink and replace it with tea/water then I'll be dandy.
You can switch to juice drinks with a lower vitamin c amount.
I think if you're eating that much fruit and drinking so much juice, you should watch out for the sugars.
"Maybe you have some bird ideas. Maybe that’s the best you can do."
― Terry A. Davis
...and you missed an "of" in there somewhere...
