December 26 (day 75)

12/26/2009
Day 75 of 182

Today is my mom's birthday. I have been spending the day with her today and we are going on a three mile walk today to help her ring in her birthday with exercise! LUCKY HER! I don't feel a twinge of guilt at all today concerning my previous days' activities or exercise. I think the holidays are insanely hectic and nobody can hold themselves to their normal fitness standards.
The past few posts, I have neglected to add my healthy secrets segment to my post, sorry.

Simple Secret Number 5:
Easy does it with the vitamins

If vitamins are helpful, then more vitamins must be even better for us,right? Wrong. In some cases, the recommended dosage of a vitamin is all that our body can process and in many cases, ingesting more than that is harmful to your kidneys, liver and body overall. Avoid developing your own personal super vitamin regimen.

In many cases, ingesting too much of an essential vitamin can be more harmful than neglecting consume the vitamin at all. In most cases, vitamin manufacturers list the absolute highest dose, without causing harm, as the recommended daily intake of certain vitamins (does anyone else think that this is BS?)

Doctors at Dana-Farber's Cancer Institute in Boston have found that cancer patients that exceed the recommended daily allowance of vitamins and minerals can actually worsen the effects of cancer and reduce the effectiveness of conventional cancer therapies.

Activity:
3 miles
1 hour bowling

Meals
two eggs
biscuit
1 tuna melt on whole wheat
2 slices of cheese pizza