nancy

can someone tell me if and where to find the current nutritional guide for us, i'm trying to make sure i'm current on all the vit's i take, i know there was something last year or the year before about niacin. whats the current recomendation?

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LisaM

Nancy,

The requirement for niacin (also called Vitamin B3) for us seems to be 100% of the RDA, which is 16mg a day for men, 14mg a day for women. Here's a really good article on it from the University of Maryland Medical Center: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/ConsSupple...3Niacincs.html

If you're more interested in optimum daily intake, rather than the recommended daily allowance (which may not be valid for us, due to the malabsorption issues), go to http://bariatricsupermarket.com/vitamins.html for a good article. Just as a warning, though, I always mistrust articles found on sites that are selling something. Especially when they're telling me that I need to supplement up to ten times the government's recommended amount, and they just happen to sell that supplement.

For new GBS moms-to-be, a terrific article on vitamins for breastfeeding post-GBS moms: http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newar...2006pg47.shtml

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If you really want to find TONS of info on vitamins, read all posts by Tracie, you can find her in the member list, she is a guru on the vitamins!!!

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