Group: General Diet & Nutrition

General Diet & Nutrition
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 399, Messages: 16719

With such a topic so broad we truly try to cover the basics from all angles in this group. Nothing too big or too small. Nutrition is as significant if not more as exercise is to reaching your goals so learn all you can.

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Question- Multivitamins and protien bars

goneawol
goneawol
Posts: 21
Joined: 2004/02/15
United States
2004/02/15, 11:01 PM
Hello everyone. My name is Tim
I am new here and looked around and saw that this looks like a nice place for advice =)
I just have a concern. I just started taking One-A-Day Multivitamins , and I have also been eating NitroTech Protein bars for energy when I lift. I was looking at the back and it says you can have a iron overdose on the multivitamin bottle. Then I read the back of the protein bar and saw that it has 15% of your daily needed iron. While the multivitamin has 100%. So that would be 115%. Is that ok? There is also a bunch of other vitamins listed too that is in the multivitamin. Should I just stop eating the protein bar all togeather?
Thanks!
-Tim
mmaibohm
mmaibohm
Posts: 1,621
Joined: 2003/09/30
United States
2004/02/15, 11:26 PM
Iron supplements may be fatal for adults when taken in doses of 200-250 mg/kg from body weight. Iron poisoning may also occur in children who take adult supplements even at low doses. Individuals who receive repeated blood transfusions are most at risk of iron toxicity.
this chart helps also in mg per day
Males, Females
9-13 years 40
14-18 years 45
19-70 years 45
> 70 years 45
I think you should be fine with eating both

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