Nutrient Deficiencies

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Hi folks:

Any suggestions welcome:

I am now about to try to fix the 'leaks' in my nutrition by making

sure I will be getting at least 100% of the RDA for all of Fitday's

nutrient list, even if it turns out that 1500 calories is my ideal

CRON calorie intake. Two of the leaks I have already plugged by

entering the correct levels of B-12 and D in fish! I am in reality

comfortably over the RDAs for those nutrients despite the fact the

uncorrected data say I am quite deficient!

So the remaining leaks to be plugged look like zinc and calcium. In

the case of zinc, it looks like I could add a lot more shiitake

mushrooms and wheat germ to my soup. I will have to work out how

much. I also take a zinc supplement once a week, but I don't know

how much of that gets absorbed.

The calcium shortfall seems more thorny though. It surprises me

somewhat as my 'thick soup' contains an entire romaine lettuce and

some bok choy. I could increase them substantially. But if I raise

my consumption of them I will also raise my iron level which is

already double the RDA and not, I believe, a good item to overdose

on. Milk products are an alternative. But milk makes me tired, and

I have heard from a credible (medical) source that when the protein

in milk products gets broken down into amino acids these are more

likely to deplete bone mass than increase it. Does anyone have good

info on this topic? Perhaps a calcium supplement is the way to go

for this? I already take some once a week. Perhaps I should raise

it to daily? Does anyone know if the body absorbs calcium

supplements in tablet form?

I am curious to know if other people have shortfalls similar to

mine. Or is everyone different?

It also occurs to me that if these databases have errors, perhaps not

all of them are on the down side? Perhaps the nutrient content of

some foods are in error on the high side and we may have deficiencies

that do not show up in the nutrition analyses for that reason?

Just a few thoughts. Input welcome.

Rodney.