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Vitamins are either water-soluble or fat-soluble. But what does that really mean... Here's the deal. When you take a vitamin supplement that is water-soluble, your body metabolizes what it can and flushes out the excess through pee. Your body does not store theses vitamins so it is important to get them daily through diet or a supplement. Vitamin C, vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), and vitamin B9 Read more
DrSugar is in the house! And she's answering your health-related questions. Dear DrSugar, Just wondering if there is an ideal time of day, absorption-wise, to take multivitamins and supplements. Specifically, upon rising, before retiring, or somewhere in between. Thanks! — Vitamin Curious Thanks for a wonderful question. As I’ve mentioned before, multivitamins can be a very important Read more
After years of being treated with disdain, dietary fat has slowly been making its way off the nutritional black list. Now that omega-3 fatty acid is almost a household word, it is time to embrace the MUFAs — monounsaturated fatty acids. A diet rich in this type of fat has been found to reduce abdominal fat better than a diet high in carbs — even without exercise. In fact, this is the Read more
