(Don't) Get In Shape for the Summer

 

“Don't I Already Get It In My Diet?”

This excuse is one of my all-time biggest pet peeves. When this is an honest question, I want to educate; when this is resistance to change, I frankly want to hit you in the head with a shovel*. Some facts to consider:

The USRDA and Getting In Shape – Two Different Goals, Two Different Outcomes

The USRDA was created in the 1940’s. It was originally created by taking a sampling of the American population and surveying their eating habits. From that raw data, the original nutrient levels were figured. It does not take a brain surgeon to figure out that that is not a scientific way of arriving at nutritional requirements.

The USRDA is currently revised every 5-10 years to theoretically meet the dietary intake level of each nutrient sufficient to meet the needs of all healthy individuals. I submit to you that, since the definition of health in Western medicine is that you are free of disease, then you are never “healthy” enough.

The USRDA is behind the times. Anyone who disagrees with me on that fact can look up the current guidelines for vitamin D3 supplementation. The current RDA is 200 iu per day, with the upper limit being 2000 iu. I personally know plenty of people who’s vitamin D requirements are twice as high as the upper limit who present with no health (the lack of disease) problem. I happen to be one of them. Further clinical proof of that fact is widely available by looking at the tremendous body of research created and collected by Dr. John Cannell and the Vitamin D Council. Vitamin D is only a single example, however; there are countless others.

 

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