"David Wright" > wrote in message
. com...
> In article >,
> Dee Randall <deedoveyatshenteldotnet> wrote:
> >
> >"David Wright" > wrote in message
> .com...
> >> In article >,
> >> Dee Randall <deedoveyatshenteldotnet> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >"Arri London" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> >>
> >> >> neurocratic malfunction wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > i have a theory about digestive enzymes.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > if you take it, over time your body will produce less natural
enzymes
> >> >> > to balance the enzymes you've ingested. then, you'll need to
take
> >> >> > more and more enzymes until you become overloaded with enzyme
pills.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > what are the results of taking too much digestive enzyme pills?
> >> >>
> >> >> A definite thinning of the wallet!
> >> >>
> >> >> Why take them if they haven't been prescribed?
> >> >
> >> >To go one step further in this logic, would it be possible for one to
get
> >> >too much vitamins, enzymes, etc. from food? I suppose one could eat
> >one's
> >> >way to ill health by otherwise eating healthy, then overindulging in
> >> >yoghurt. Might this be your reasoning?
> >>
> >> It can happen with some nutrients and other substances -- eating polar
> >> bear liver can give you a massive overdose of vitamin A, too much
> >> licorice is bad for you due to one of the acids in it, and too much
> >> seafood may cause you to exceed the RDA of mercury :-)
> >
> >Licorice is touted for indigestion. (Buy the kind that doesn't cause
> >elevated hypertension.) I was referring to foods that were naturally
good,
> >not ones with known poisons in them as in seafood. Polar bear liver --
can
> >you give me another example )
>
> It's mostly a question of excess -- if you try to live on carrot
> juice, for example, the carotenes will turn you yellow and eventually
> you're apt to expire.

Per nutrition lecture, persons that turn yellow from carotene excess
are often diabetic or low thyroid as I recall.



>
> Eating a lot of iron-rich foods could be bad for males (elevated risk
> of heart attack).
>
> -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
> These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
> "If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
> were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)
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