How to get more vitamins?

[melmel]

You need to make sure to get more vitamins and minerals while taking Alli, because it will absorb some of them. How do you get enough? What do you eat to make sure you are getting vitamins and minerals?

[need2lose]

Multi-vitamins are the answer. Even when you aren't on alli, you usually can't get as many as you need to be truly healthy by diet alone. Remember, the MDA is a Minimum Daily Requirement.

[summer]

I agree. We should probably all be taking them anyway. Excuse me, I have to go add them to my shopping list!

[cancersurvivor]

Hi everybody, I am 22 years old and overweight. My present weight is around 190 pounds. I am trying to loose my weight rapidly. I am very lazy in exercise. I'm on a diet and I been drinking diet Coke instead of juice that has calories. Will one can of diet soda a day affect my health or make me diet in useless because I'll gain weight instead? I am thinking about taking of diet pills. Is it safe for my health? If there is any person with experience in weight loss please let me know how I loose my weight.

[Wings]

Ok, this confuses me: Alli inhibits the absorption of lipids, but most vitamins are fat-soluble, not water soluble. That would mean that most of the vitamins won't be absorbed. But adding more vitamins shouldn't increase the absorption of the lipids and the lipids being absorbed will eventually reach a saturation point. Won't most of the extra vitamins just pass through my system and not be absorbed? Sounds to me like I'll just be depleting my vitamin intake. Does someone have a biochemical mechanism that explains the safety of this product?

*P.S. Yes you can get too many vitamins, more so for fat-soluble than water soluble (which would just pass through your system). But all vitamins have adverse side effects when taken in great excess.

[dvdrumls]

For more vitamins you can try the green vegetables. or you can also use multi-vitamins tablets which are easily available at any medical store.