Why topless sunbathing is good for women

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I find a couple of pints of Abbot Ale does the trick though .....

I'll float that idea past my GP next time I make a repeat prescription request.

 

[Yellow Fang]

Actually, my daughter is the Nutritionist, I'm just the humble Food Scientist in the family .....

But yes, I agree with the basic assertion, however supplements are available and some products such as margerine, bread etc are fortified too.
B12 is hard to get from plant sources so supplements seem to be the only way here. I often wonder whether the fact that B12 comes from such an unusual source that the great biochemist in the sky meant us to be omnivores.
On the subject of Vegan/Vegetarian nutrition, Iodine intake tends to be low too as one of the major sources is cows milk.

Is is lack of B12 that makes vegetarians look pale or is it something else? A lot of adults are lactose intolerant; where would they get iodine from?

 

[slowmotion]

There is a way of assessing burns called the "Rule of 9s"

What's the point of the magnet beneath his Number One? Is it supposed to attract members of the opposite sex who have "exotic" piercings?

 

[ufkacbln]

Leave off, your belly is not that big.

It is an "aerobelly"

Skinny people have a far less aerodynamic profile when on a recumbent than someone with an aerobelly, it smooths out the airflow

 

[Markymark]

I'll float that idea past my GP next time I make a repeat prescription request.

Stay in the pink with ciggies and drink.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I have B12 injected every 10 weeks..seeing the Dr friday to see if i need it at 8 weeks..
i eat everything but i cant absord B12 through my gut ..
im nice and tanned too after a few weeks of nice sunshine.

low B12 has all sorts of side effects..
confusion, pain in joints, tiredness, for starters..

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I can't do the WNBR on the recumbent - too much risk of it getting dragged under the trike....

Thats a hell of a haemorrhoid

 

[Hill Wimp]

I'll float that idea past my GP next time I make a repeat prescription request.

My mum was prescribed Guinness when she was pregnant with me due to a low iron count.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Is is lack of B12 that makes vegetarians look pale or is it something else? A lot of adults are lactose intolerant; where would they get iodine from?

There are other sources (I'll have to check), but milk is by and far the largest single source, but not the only one.

 

[Hill Wimp]

There are other sources (I'll have to check), but milk is by and far the largest single source, but not the only one.

Is it in the nut milks and soya milks too?

 

[Hill Wimp]

White fish and shellfish are the best sources. For vegetarians, eggs are a rich source, as is seaweed. If they eat milk products then yoghurt is the best source.

I best get down the beavh and farm the weed then.

 

[2IT]

I have reading about vitamins. I read this extract:

Low vitamin D intakes and low serum vitamin D levels are associated with increased risk of colon cancer and other cancers; adequate vitamin D seems to protect against breast cancer recurrence. A distinguished medical researcher - Edward Giovanucci of the Department of Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health - said, "I would challenge anyone to find an area or nutrient or factor that has such consistent anticancer benefits as vitamin D." He added that vitamin D may prevent thirty deaths for every death caused by skin cancer.

Then the book lists factors that affect the body's production of vitamin D from sun exposure, which include:

• latitude and time of year
• time of day
• cloud cover, fog or smog
• materials that block UVB rays
• UVB sun lamp
• skin colour
• area of skin exposure
• age
• body weight

I also read about B12. This appears to be the one vitamin vegans cannot source naturally. It's a book about veganism, and the authors stress that, strictly, the vitamin comes from micro-organisms, not animal flesh, but that since you would normally get vitamin B12 by eating meat, I don't see the distinction. Interestingly, I thought vegans tended to look pale because they were not getting enough iron, but the book says iron is not a problem. They do say that a symptom of B12 deficiency is megaloblastic aneamia:

Without proper cell division, facilitated by vitamin B12, abnormally large red blood cells appear in the blood, because the cells have failed to divide properly. This condition is called megaloblastic aneamia. The blood has decreased ability to carry oxygen, which results in fatigue, weakness, decreased stamina, shortness of breath, palpitations and skin pallor. Note that this condition can be masked in diets rich in folate (as many vegan diets are), because dietary folate is part of the process of red blood cell division.

Given the title I was hoping for some pics.

How did our ancestors get by without supplements? Guess they just suffered and died like us too.

Take B12 supplements myself per the doctor. As I've aged one can get some anemia due to poor digestion and B12 helps.

Luckily I live where the vitamin D is available from the sun much of the year.

Wouldn't girls need to be topless for quite awhile there to get enough?

 

[Fab Foodie]

Wouldn't girls need to be topless for quite awhile there to get enough?

Paging @Fnaar .....

 

[jefmcg]

There is a way of assessing burns called the "Rule of 9s"

Note the image above has been chosen not to represent any particular race, gender

I thought this was a joke. Do you really think this image in gender neutral? Even without the external genitalia, this is the classic phenotype of an XY genotype.

It's a theme that runs through our culture, that male is "normal" and "neutral". You can see it when "he" is used as a pronoun when gender is unknown, when the "women's vote" is treated like a special interest group, rather than 51% of the country, and when a male body is "human" and a female one is "woman".

 

[Cumisky]

My mum was prescribed Guinness when she was pregnant with me due to a low iron count.

Takes me back, my ex wife was given Guinness daily in hospital after the birth of our first child, to combat anaemia