Hi, I am mostly talking about Vitamin B and E when I say that people are being talked into taking anywhere from 50-100 mg/day of Vit B.and 400-800 mg/day of Vitamin E. I am herewith quoting from a book on wholefood vitamins:

Question: Do you really need 100 mg of the B vitamins?


Answer: According to the Nutrition Almanac it would take 1,655 cups of fruits, grains and vegetables to provide 100 mg. of the B vitamins. If we were intended to eat 100 mg. of B vitamins per day our food would have much higher amounts.

Even if you went heavy on eating liver and other high-vitamin organ foods, you would still have to eat more than you could stand - your stomach would burst.

I do think that if you have been seriously deficient in vitamins, it can't hurt, and it might help, to take these dosages for a short period. But so many people take these dosages daily, year after year.

Regarding mineral content of foods in org VS non-org grown. I am sorry to say that that may be accurate for that one study you quote. But not all organic farmers supply their soil with large quantities of mineral-rich fertilizer; they use only the minimum to get the plant growing and attractive to look at. A vegetable/grain/fruit will certainly grow nicely even though it may not have any more mineral content than a non-org grown.

Organic standards do not require the grower to produce certain minimum mineral content. All they require is that the grower not use any artificial fertilizer or pesticide, no GMOs and a few other requirements.

I have bought broccoli, for example, at the supermarket, with a nice solid stem. I have also bought certified Org. Grown broccoli with a hollow stem - a sign of mineral deficiency. This is only one example.

Unfortunately, "organically grown" does NOT autmatically mean "good" and non-organically grown does not automatically mean "bad". It is about the health of the soil overall. I, myself, don't use anything chemical or artificial in my garden and I do trouble myself to fertilize with natural substances - chicken manure from naturally-raised chickens, seaweed concentrate, etc.

For further info, look up "ecological agriculture". It is a style of growing food that goes beyond mere organics.

I guess I should not have gone off-topic.

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