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1. It depends on units used. Which is more-- 1 gram or 1 million (1,000,000) micrograms or 1,000 milligrams? They are the same amount. People need hundreds of thousands of mcg of magnesium daily (300 mg or 300,000 mcg), but they only need 6 mcg of B-12 daily. Also a percentage means divided by 100. So which is more-- 10 or 1,000%? They are the same.

2. Vitamins are not foods. They do not grow on trees or exist in nature alone. The vitamins in supplements are chemicals. Chemicals break down but do not spoil. The saying is that if you hit foods with a stick they will not spoil. Or is that kids? You need 300 mg of magnesium daily. Too much vitamin D at one time will kill you. B-12 is different. 500 mg of B-12 is enough for 100 years. Your body can store years of B-12 without you becoming deficient in it.

3. Actually convert your example to money. Say that you put $50 in the bank every day for a year. You have the natural log of the square root of pi times 0. Then add 365 times $50 and you have $18,250. Say you skip doing that 1 day a month. You will only have $17,650 (600 less). Not much of a difference. 98% means 98/100. 98% of $18,250 is $17,885.

4. The body destroys excess amino acids (protein) and this causes health problems like heart attacks and strokes (first and third leading cause of death). The American Dietetic Association says that vegans eat twice the protein that they need. That is 2 times or 200%. That is bad for health. See article about protein on Health Related Articles.

5. First question is like why is grass green and the sky blue. Why is a bear Catholic and the Pope defacates in the woods? Seratonin is not to be worried about. Worry causes insomnia. Seratonin is supposed to help you sleep at night but most Americans have trouble sleeping. Get plenty of sunlight during day to help sleep at night with more seratonin. I had to drive all night so my friend could sleep and drive all day the next day to get from Miami to Philadelphia in 1 day. I had some carbs and started falling asleep right at the start. Then I ate some protein and drove all night.

6. The above article on protein gives you the actual numbers of amino acids so that you can see that that is a myth about combining foods.

7. This article on Nutrition tells why vitamin supplements are bad for you to take and why whole food supplements are good to take. I take B-12 supplements. My rule is that all rules have exceptions, except some. Here is an example from site above. "The FDA does not allow a supplement to contain more than 99 mg of potassium, a mineral. If you go to a nutritionist doctor, they will never give you more than 200 mg of potassium since they know that you may need to be rushed to a hospital. Yet it is okay to eat 2 avocadoes which contain 2,400 mg of potassium, 3 potatoes that have 2,100 mg of potassium or 3 bananas that contain 1,200 mg of potassium."