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Vitamin and Supplement’s Dosage

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I wrote the other day about Vitamins for Pre/Pregnancy/Post stages and how it compared to a competitor Materna.  Janine had a great comment on how your body can only process so much vitamins and the rest are just disposed of.  I’ve also heard this as well and so I did some digging and also checked with a few friends who are in the medical profession to get some better understanding. 

First and foremost always take the prescribed dosages that are on any supplements or vitamins you take.  If you start taking multiple vitamins and supplements always check with a physician or whoever you take your nutrition advise from. 

What I did find out is there are maximum’s for every vitamin and supplement for your body.  It’s varies depending on age, gender and if your pregnant and also for what type of vitamin. I won’t go into all the maximum’s because well it’s just a TON of information. 

Some important things to take note of though is that there are two types of vitamins.  Water Soluble Vitamins and Fat Soluble Vitamins. Water Soluble vitamins are all the B-Vitamins as well as Vitamin C.  So these are not stored in your body.  If you take to many or more than what your body can handle then yes it will just excrete them out.  You’d just be wasting your money. 

Vitamin A, D, E, and K are Fat Soluble Vitamins, if you take excess doses then your body will store them in your fat and liver.  The problem with them being stored is they can become toxic.  So make sure you take the recommended daily intake, that being said your body can take a bit more on then what is recommended because recommended is always lower for safe guards.  Again check with your Doctor.

With all Vitamins and Supplements if you check on what the Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) is for each vitamin then you’ll know what your body can handle at the highest level that will likely pose no risk.

Here is a great PDF document from Health Canada that shows the Dietary Reference Intakes.  You can find your RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowance), AI (Adequate Intake) and UL.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/alt_formats/hpfb-dgpsa/pdf/nutrition/dri_tables-eng.pdf

You can find out a lot of information here about the Dietary Reference Intakes if your curious.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/nutrition/reference/index-eng.php

So while some vitamins will just pass through you if you take to much it’s important to know that some vitamins like the fat soluble vitamins will actually stick around and can do more harm than good.

Hope that helps clear things up!

Energy Drinks – Caffeine Freak Out

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So yesterday and today the major news outlets have just hammered the public with a recent article published by Canadian medical Association Journal.  The article can be found here.  You can also find a few of the news links here:

Sorry Edmonton Sun, you don`t cut it as credible news, even if you are just reposting something else.

The main issue here is how some companies are just loading up their energy drinks with a crap pile of caffeine, some as high as 500 mg! while most are on the average of 80 to 140 mg.   They go on to say how most companies are targeting teenagers to buy their product.  Make sense for sure.  However jacking up someone on 500 mg of caffeine is unacceptable and I agree some measures need to be put in place.  However kids are always looking for that quick buzz or something to jolt them awake and even with measures in place and all the news and science out there they will end up drinking what they want.  I was never a huge energy drink drinker and mainly had one while driving long distances.  Also most energy drinks are also jacked up on sugars which end up giving you that lovely crash after a few hours.747632-dv-qv

I am quite proud of the XS Energy drinks that we carry because they are on the lower amount of caffeine than most energy drinks at  83 mg, some come in a non-caffeine version, and have a multiple variety of flavours instead of just that “Energy Drink” taste.  We will be getting the Classic Blast in Canada soon from what I just heard yesterday as well as the Energy Shots which have the same amount of caffeine as the regular energy drink.  However I think the best part of our energy drinks is the O sugar and 0 carb content as well as the LOW calorie content between 8-16.  I won’t say where our drink ranks because I really don’t have the fact to back that up but what I unofficially heard is that we are number #2 right behind Red Bull which is #1.

Health Canada suggests that kids between the age’s of 10 to 12 shouldn’t consume more than 85 milligrams of caffeine a day which is okay because our drink is 83, room to spare! :)   All kidding aside I think we stand above most because of these facts and the fact we offer a far more superior product that doesn’t give you that crash. Our energy is mainly from the B12 vitamin instead of relying on caffeine and sugar. 

If your interested in trying one of ours out do let me know and I’d love to sample you one.  We have all the flavours.

If your curious where XS stacks up, check this out:

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