Which supplements are worth it and which are nonsense
 

Great find, toad. Thanks.

Wow, that's interesting, where's it from? (oop, nevermind)
The only one I take, starting yesterday, is D. I still have a cold though...

The interactive version looks slightly different. For example, Folic Acid isn't as high on the interactive version.

Found here. http://www.informationisbeautiful.ne...l-supplements/

WTF? And now it's back up there at the top when I opened my own link in a different window. I don't have it sorted differently in the two windows. I don't get it.

Interesting find, Tony.
(FWIW, I'm on omega-3, fish oil and D3 supplementation. Red Yeast Rice is effectively a statin -- lovastatin, aka monacolin K -- and would conflict with the prescription statin I am on, simvastatin.)
Yes, I should drink more green tea. I just wish it tasted better. Sigh.

Though beta glucan is quite intriguing. However, it seems to be very expensive.

The size of the bubbles are based on the number of Google hits, so it makes sense that it varies with time.

One of you guys, possibly UT, has posted a study which stated that ginger was THE ONLY natural substance that had ANY health benefits whatsoever. Now, on this new chart, I am seeing that ginger is below the "worth it" line...?

Ginger's worth it, but I'm a Mary Ann man, myself.

On the green tea front, I'd heartily recommend going to some hole in the wall Japanese cafe sort of a place and giving a smell to all of them. Straight gunpowder green tea is kind of bleh in my book, too, but I've always enjoyed jasmine teas, and I dig the smell of genmaicha.

My understanding is that they all come from the same plant, and just have different other plants in addition.


As for the charts, I feel like the top half has a lot more legitimacy than the bottom half -- that, really, to do something like this, you need to be very clear about what result is intended. Saying all vitamins are below the "worth it line" is kind of, in my mind, silly, if you aren't going to be fairly clear as to what result you are hoping for. Yeah, taking a multivitamin won't keep you from getting hit by a car, but there's some middle ground.

gvidas, it's usually called 'a balanced diet'.

don't hold me to these...... it's more about the concept...

There's an app in there.

Steak should be higher.

The Cellar's not even in there :eyebrow: