In article <[email hidden]>,
Kathryn Friesen said:
& has its Chamber of Commerce ever responded?
In my never-ending search for truth about liquid vs. pill vitamins, I
naturally went to Google, then "vitamins+sewer". You may not be aware
of whats happening there.
Per site #1, 250,000 of undigested vitamin pills show up in its
sewer-treating system every six weeks.
Site # 2 claims 247,000 lbs. during the same time period, but further
identifies them as "overpriced".
Site #3 is a little more cautious & says it's 25,000 lbs. Sorry, I got
so excited about this decrease, I completely forgot to check over what
time period.
Site #4 was a doctor, who claimed it was 165,000# each month, so
mathematically would that work out to 250,000# in six weeks? The good
doctor does mention the Physicians Desk Reference in his site.
How nice for him. I bet he's not an MD.
And I bet that the morons who keep repeating these insane numbers
for poor Tacoma are the sorts who have to take off their shoes
to count above 10.
Here's why: the population of Tacoma is only about 200,000. If
the overloaded sewer system were really being clogged by some
165,000 pounds of vitamin pills per month, that's around 13 ounces
per resident per month. Given that a typical vitamin pill only weighs
a couple of grams, each resident (man, woman, and child) of Tacoma
would have to be chowing down on a half-dozen pills per day, *none* of
which are actually being digested. Yeah, right.
I don't use expensive brands of vitamins, and it's easy enough to test
your own brand to see if it's likely to be undigestible -- just drop
one in a glass of water and check it in a few hours. I think you'll
find that the gels have burst and the tablets have started to
disintegrate, and that's without stomach acids and muscle agitation to
improve the results.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)
