Dr. Oz Shares His New Advice on Vitamin A Supplementation and Anti-Aging Smoothies
Today, the Dr. Oz show was full of contradictions.
While Dr. Oz let the woman from Weight Watchers give advice on foods that people can eat on the Transformation Nation contest that contained bread and other questionable combination of food groups that are not VERY healthy for a true Lifestyle change in weight when he reduced the amount of Vitamin A in a multi-vitamin supplement with VERY little science to back up his change of mind.
Going from 5000 IUs to 3500 IUs of Vitamin A in a supplement appears to me to be trivial and insignificant, since most of us know that people fail to eat their Greens, their vegetables, their other food sources of Vitamin A.
Dr. Oz failed to discuss the differences and the correlations between Vitamin A and beta-carotene, but then that would necessitate his awareness that it makes a difference in the first place…
The way the body uses fat-soluble Vitamin A and the supplements that contain the type of Vitamin A that becomes water-soluble through emulsification also makes a profound difference, but Dr. Oz left that out of the discussion, too.
When you listen to Dr. Oz, you have to realize that he gives incomplete information, because his knowledge of nutrition is sketchy at best. Now…he’s more than qualified to walk you through the chambers and the vessels of the heart, but when it comes to Vitamin A – he falls short on the job.
I may be picky, but while Dr. Oz was talking about Vitamin A requirements
At least he partially redeemed himself when he offered the audience three new Anti-Aging Smoothies that tasted reasonably good. The recipes for these Smoothies can be found here:
Dr. Oz and Three New Anti-Aging Smoothie Recipes
There are three pages with recipes from today’s show. My only hesitation are the ice cubes. When you use ingredients that are already cooled from being in the refrigerator, you don’t really need to use ice.
The use of peanut butter and other nut butters, cacao or chocolate, yogurt, and berries are always good ingredients for Smoothies. However, in my personal opinion, all of these ingredients should be locally sourced if possible and organic. The freshness quotient is one of the most often over-looked aspects of getting viable nutrients and ‘energy’ from your Smoothies which in turn will reverse or slow the aging process. If your ingredients are not superb, they will not have that effect!
That’s one of the reasons why I cannot support nor endorse the Weight Watchers’ Transformation Nation contest. That food doesn’t have as much ‘life force’ as a person needs to become authentically healthy which goes beyond simple weight management. That turkey sandwich and that broccoli looked seriously ‘lacking’ to me and you wouldn’t find me eating what the Weight Watcher woman was promoting… No wonder so many women cannot stick to any of these programs and need a buddy system! You would have to have an enemy sit on top of me and force feed me this crappy food…
Look…if you are following the Transformation Nation diet guidelines, you need as much supplementation daily as possible; because it is highly unlikely that you will be getting enough from your food when the quality if lacking. So for the time being, you can feel relatively comfortable ignoring the Vitamin A suggestion and try to get adequate amounts of beta-carotene from your foods every day on your own.
