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I take One-A-Day Essentials - no minerals at all - at breakfast and do fine. I'm thinking of trying my husband's One-A-Day Men's - they have minerals, but no iron. I'd try half of one of those tablets.

Warning - Rant: I don't understand why vitamins insist on giving you 100%, 200%, 300% of the RDA. I feel like I just need a little bit of help - like maybe 25% of the RDA - because I haven't completely worked out getting enough fruits and vegetables. I looked at iron supplements a week or so ago and found the same thing - they all seemed to provide 139% (strange number) of the RDA. The only one that didn't was one of the "naturals" (apparently hot new vitamin concept - the vitamins are extracted from foods instead of whipped up in labs). That provided only 39% which would have been great - but it had lactose in it!

Okay, finished ranting now. I'm seeing my doctor later today about various things and plan to ask her about trying iron in liquid form.

BTW, the issue of vitamins has come up before. You might try a Search and see what other info is out there.

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