I just thought of a great reason not to use colloidal vitamins. The airport!

I love to try new vitamins, and I'd recently been getting into liquid forms. Somebody suggested I try colloidal silver, but then I read an article about a man who had actually turned blue by taking colloidal silver. Regardless, I have read about the benefits of liquid forms of other supplements. Obviously fish oils and omega 3's can pretty much only be taken as liquids--those omega 3 benefits are endless-- but there are many healthy liquid forms of multivitamins. They even make a few as an oral spray.

The liquid vitamins are often either green or yellow, and have a pungent taste. Despite the awful taste, it's nice to know the vitamins are going right to my system rather than through it as was the case with some of the heat processed supplement pills I used to take.

Then I had to go on a plane trip to Philadelphia. I went through the normal process of being all but raped by airport security at which point they told me I had to throw away all my liquids. Including my $80 bottle of liquid vitamins. I was not happy. I could have called up my roommate to drive all the way out to the airport to grab my vitamins for me, but unfortunately I only had 20 minutes until the flight, so the vitamins were confiscated.

I know it's a silly reason not to use colloidal supplements, and by all means, keep using them if you never fly. But if you are a traveler, I warn you.

And always remember to buy vitamin supplements from the best sources, whether colloidal or not!

I was in a car accident about a week ago. At the time, I was extremely stressed. My car had broken down the night before, the tow took two long hours, and the hotel double charged me. Then I get my car fixed the next day, and just as I'm driving out of the Pep Boys, I hit a truck and ruin the front fender. It was not a good day, lots of money down the drain, wasted time, and a load of a headache, but hey, life keeps going.

Then today at work, and old friend stopped by. He had to quit his job because of a car accident. He went through eight hour surgery and had 14 screws placed in his spine. He's still wearing a neck brace, but overall he's okay. Accidents like these remind you of how lucky you are sometimes. The accident was unfortunate, but the kid's okay, and he has a positive attitude.

Anyway, sorry this doesn't have much to do with health, but I just had to get that off my mind. I promise next month I'll be back in style with some truly shiny health tips, but right now I'll just do a health blog run down. Check out the best multivitamins or primal nutrition for a few good health tips to keep you going for the rest of the day. And for God's sake, drive safe!

Medicine is anything but simple. Anibiotics, antidepressants, anti-inflammatories, antioxidants. Then flip that over and you have probiotics, depressants, oxidation techniques, and pretty much everything else under the sun. It seems there are a hundred different ways to cure every ailment, and none of them work. I've heard good cases for going all natural, but when push comes to shove, I'll toss anything down my throat to fix my body. Unfortunately, tossing anything down my throat is what causes some of the major problems I have with my body. The cycle never ends.

Anyway, sorry for the short post. I'm mainly here just for the new health websites that have been popping up in the blogosphere. When you buy vitamin products, you have to look for the best multivitamins and those two weblogs will help with both.

My friend is hosting Thanksgiving dinner this year. His girlfriend is vegetarian, so as a way of being progressive and rubbing up against tradition, they've decided to make a Tofurkey. A tofurkey is a fake turkey made out of tofu. If there's one way to ensure your new boyfriend's friends won't like you, take away their meat on the most important meat-eating day of the year. It's like having everyone over to your house on Monday night, and then subbing in the Raiders/Chiefs game with a rerun of The View.

"But, it's healthy!" you say.

No. It's not. Tofu is not necessarily healthy. It's only quality is that it isn't meat. Furthermore, TURKEY is one of the healthiest meats available to man, it's lean, full of protein, and it frickin' tastes good. Switching to tofurkey is actually downgrading health for the sake of vegetarianism.

So, what exactly does a tofurkey look like? It looks like a ball. It's not even shaped like a turkey. It's sort of like the shape of an overgrown little debbie snack cake, but it's supposed to have turkey flavoring (artificial, of course). My friend baked a practice one. They should rename it tofuckingawful.

But, the worst part of this situation is the size of the tofurkey. It could maybe feed a family of four, if that family includes two mealy mouthed children who wont ask for seconds. My friend and his girlfriend have ten guests coming over. That's twelve people. And they bought two tofurkeys. This gives approximately 2/3 of a serving per person. It's Thanksgiving, and that's just wrong. Then again, knowing the taste, maybe they bought too much.

Okay, time to forget about tofu for a minute and head on over to orac value or omega 3 benefits for a dose of healthy blogging and healthy living.

I'm staying home for Halloween. I'm on a diet, which pretty much makes Halloween the worst day of the month for me. I can't do any tricker treating. Not that I would because I'm 37 and a 37 year old man tricker treating is just a bit creepy. But if I go to a party I know I'm going to end up drinking the sugar loaded alcoholic dry ice brew that is served at every Halloween party, which would just kill the whole week for me as far as calories goes.

So, instead, I'm watching scary movies. In the DARK!! Ooooohhh. Yeah. First I'll be watching the original Halloween. Then I'll be watching the first resident evil movie, which I honestly thing is a great modern horror movie (forget the sequels). And finally I'll be watching a classic, probably the best horror movie ever made in my opinion. It's called Night of the Hunter, and that movie still scares me today just as much as it did the first time I saw it when I was seven. How can you beat a priest with Love and Hate tattooed to his knuckled riding a horse across country, hunting down children. Horror at it's best.

And the only thing that beats a scary movie, is a scary awesome health link, so I've whipped up two for you this week, since I didn't post last week (fire issues). This first is Damage Control and the second is Master Formula. Put those together and you've got Damage Control Master Formula which is actually the name of the product both sites are unnofficially promoting. Anyway, you don't have to check them out, but it's Halloween, which means you really should.

If you are going to buy vitamin supplements, you've probably read a little bit about natural health. You know the basic vitamin information. Omega 3's are the brain vitamins, A is just plain great, get plenty of B's for your red blood cells, especially if you're a vegetarian.

Then someone comes along and tells you to take vitamin O. What is vitamin O? It's oxygen. There's a company out there packaging oxidizing tablets as a new form of vitamin. This is clearly a stretch of the semantics of the word vitamin. I guess technically you could declare any micronutrient we inject into our system as vitamin. But, if this is the case, I guess laxatives, sun tan lotion, and heroin are all vitamins as well.

Vitamin O? No thanks, I'll stick with the essentials.

If you're looking to buy vitamin power, there's millions of choices out there. Every different vitamin claims it's got exactly what you need, and often it can be very difficult to tell the difference between products. Which vitamins are made under what conditions? Am I getting too much of something and too little of something else? Here's some tips to simplify your vitamin purchasing:

1. Don't worry about getting too much of something. In the natural supplement world, companies must be ever cautious about the ingredients in their products because of law suits, so very few companies actually take the risk of including ingredients that could be harmful to your body. Furthermore, almost all vitamins are purely beneficial to a point, and then they simply become unnecessary to the body and are disposed of. The few vitamins that can be harmful are only harmful if taken in extreme doses, much more than any supplement has to offer (like 100 to 1000 times the amount the most potent supplements offer).

2. Don't worry about the conditions the vitamins were made. Almost all vitamins come in the pure form from the lab that creates them. That means that whatever processed was used, you're getting the same end product. As long as the product is made in America (or Japan), you're safe. Which leads to my final point...

3. If the product's main selling point is the source the vitamin comes from, it's bullshit. Many products will claim they are the only form of a certain supplement because they are "The only supplement sourced from the South African zambingi mushroom on the market" Remember, vitamins are in their pure form. Where they come from isn't an important factor.

Hope these tips were helpful. Remember to keep it Simple!