Vitamins

RE the calcium thing I mentioned yesterday: my doc asked how I was getting calcium into my diet. I told her I take a multivitamin each day and drink 1-2 glasses of milk (plus various cheese and greens have some have calcium). She suggested I drink either one more glass of milk or pick up some fortified OJ. She said that most multivitamins only have 200 or 400 mgs and needed for me would 1000-1200 per day. Well, this morning I checked the label on my multivitamin. Not only does it have 1000 mg of calcium (100% of the dv, according to the label) but its got at least 100% of everything else. Most often its more than 100%. They are women's daily vitamins from Trader Joes, that read "Survival of the Fittest" on the label. Neat!

I'm still trying to eat good amounts of things in real food, but it makes me feel good that this whole time I've been getting what I needed. I picked them up *last* year after my checkup, when she suggested I get something for women that had folate (you know, just in case). :)

Nephew's birthday dinner tonight, farm share tomorrow and Ozzfest (fscking Maiden, man!) on Friday. Whoot!

Interesting reading on Soy

Leave it to Tim to open a can of worms (in a good way) :) http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/lecithin.html

Looking at the labels of things I have at work, as far as soy goes in what I'm eating today:
milk, raisin bran, a plum, sliced turkey, swiss cheese, mustard, salad greens - all no soy
bread - "contains 2% or less of the following . . . soybean oil"
salad dressing - main ingrediant is "soybean and/or canola oil"

The latter 2 are to be expected. I wonder where else things are hiding (for the most part we don't eat a lot of pre-prepared/pre-packaged stuff).

Alton Brown touched on this in an episode we saw recently, "real" soy sauce: http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Ency/Index.cfm/Id/1945002