Fri, Jun-18-10, 05:07
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Plan: Dr Dahlqvist's
Stats: 205/152/160
BF:
Progress: 118%
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BIOTIN Vitamin B7 insufficiency was picked out as one of the micronutrients most likely to be missing from the 4 diet plans (Atkins for Life diet, The South Beach Diet, the DASH diet, The Best Life Diet) considered.
Bear in mind that they used amounts suggested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) RDI guidelines appropriate for healthy adult men and women and those who have studied the needs for vitamin D and magnesium would like to see these raised to help prevent many chronic conditions.
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Analysis revealed that the Atkins for Life diet was (44.44%) sufficient, delivered 100% RDI sufficiency for 12 out of 27 essential micronutrients and contained 1,786 calories.
The Best Life Diet was (55.56%) sufficient, delivered 100% of the RDI for 15 out of 27 essential micronutrients and contained 1,793 calories.
The DASH diet was (51.85%) sufficient, delivered 100% of the RDI for 14 out of 27 essential micronutrients and contained 2,217 calories.
Lastly, The South Beach Diet was (22.22%) sufficient, delivered 100% RDI
sufficiency for 6 out of 27 essential micronutrients and contained 1,197 calories
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six micronutrients were consistently deficient or non-existent within all four diet plans.
These micronutrients were vitamin B7 (biotin), vitamin D, vitamin E,
Cr (chromium), I (iodine), and Mo (molybdenum).
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With regards to VITAMIN D there is NO POSSIBILITY THAT ANY MODERN DIET could provide adequate amounts of vitamin D3. The way eskimos survived the long winter and averaging 6~7000iu/daily was by fermenting vitamin D3 rich foods in seal oil for winter use, The best anyone could do nowdays using supermarket foods is achieve around 400iu/daily if they ate a portion of oily fish daily.
Vitamin D3 is made in the skin during UVB exposure and skin makes 10,000~20,000iu given 10~20-minutes full body prone nonburning midday sun exposure. But we can make do with roughly 1000iu/daily per 25lbs we currently weigh.
IODINE or Kelp powder
BIOTIN
Chromium
Vitamin E natural complex
As molybdenum can be obtained from you drinking water if you live in a hard water area and I'm not sure the researchers considered calcium/magnesium/molybdenum intakes from drinking water rather than just the food in the diet they measured, I don't worry about that.
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