Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 22, 2022

Rat won’t have to take vitamin E for the rest of his life.

Maybe he should have a bag of Gummy Bears with one vitamin gummy in it.

That’s why they don’t make One-A-Day potato chips.

I set up my pill organizer for 5 days a week. It isn’t necessary to take a one-a-day every day. If I forget a day, it’s OK, and the pill organizer is still good.

When I was a kid in the early 60s I took One-A-Day Vitamins . . . once a day.

Eating too many vitamin pills at once is Niacin-Retinal-Calciferol

If you take too much vitamin it become vitamax.

Rat would overdose if vitamins came in a beer can.

You know You’ve exceeded limits when they hAVE TO USE LETTER’S FROM OTHER LANGUAGESFOR THE STUFF YOU’RE TAKING.

The senior’s gummies my mother took would never have done you any damage. Their concentration was too low.

This is how you get to star in a chubbyemu video.

Flintstone’s Chewable Morphine®!

Gummies have vitamins? I thought gummies had…..oh look, pretty stars. Anybody got Doritos? Whoa. I can see the music coming out of the speakers. Far out, man.

We take about a dozen supplements/vitamins a day. Why doesn’t somebody offer a custom service to send you everything you want in one pill?

All the evidence shows OTC vitamin supplements either do nothing or cause harm. Approach with caution.

That was a problem with marijuana tourism in Colorado. People came here, when it was made illegal, and would eat gummy edibles. The problem was, they ate too many at once.

I never exceed the recommended dosage. I always feel concerned about my health.

When I was 7, I fed my younger brother & myself a whole bottle of Flintstones fluoride chewables and, yes, we did go to the hospital and got our stomachs pumped.

Multivitamins are not giving you the benefits you have been led to believe.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/is-there-really-any-benefit-to-multivitamins

They typically don’t…unless one buys kids vitamins.

Take a look at the “new” rainbow Fentanyl pills…

Who wants to go to the hospital?

If not for gummies I wouldn’t be enticed to keep taking my vitamins. Although might need to rethink taking vitamins at all after reading some of the posts here.

If you have a balanced diet, no need

Have you ever noticed that the more expensive the vitamins or supplements, the more often it is recommended that you take them?

Remember to take your Vitamin D.

I may have done something similar, with Sour Gummie vitamins.

I guess self-control is not in Rat’s vocabulary.

We had Geritol in the fridge that us kids would take a small swig of now and then. Weird taste, but we thought we were getting healthy.

What happens if you take them at night?

They were Flintstones Vitamins and he’s got a dinosaur lodged in his throat

I agree. Medicine shouldn’t be camouflaged as candy for obvious reasons, even vitamins…..

Gummi cannabis edibles (Legal in Illinois!) taste terrible, I’m never tempted to eat more than one. Usually half of one, that’s enough to give me the 1970’s effect.

I’ve always thought that candy medicine was a mistake. Cherry and grape flavor liquids, fortunately, taste vile. I’m not sure about gummis. When I was a kid I developed a taste for Elixer Terpin Hydrate with Codeine. I think it was actually the only thing that stopped my croupy cough.

When your urine smells like a bottle of vitamins, you don’t need more vitamins.

Rubber tire flavor would probably taste better because of the vitamins in it.

Hard,tasteless pills are best.

A few years ago I posted in a forum similar to this that one of the signs of adulthood is you stop taking gummy vitamins and start taking real vitamins. Oh boy, I did not foresee the flaming i got from that one.

St. Joseph’s Children’s Asprin was my drug of choice as a child. The orange taste was out of this world

Say goodbye to your liver…

What I don’t get is why you have to take vitamins with food. I did that with vitamin gummies years ago and gave that up. Then I started taking zinc and vitamin D early in the COVID pandemic and have continued to do so for my overall health. I have to take them with food as well.

You shouldn’t overdo the vitamins, Rat. Could be toxic.

So, Pig is probably right about getting your stomach pumped….

I really like sour candies. I have to use Flintstones vitamins with iron because I can’t tolerate regular iron supplements. I’m always tempted to take more than I need. If I ever had kids visiting, I’d be sure I hid the bottle, as getting too much iron is one of the biggest dangers to kids.

Never understood the American obsession with supplements. Most of them do nothing, except make some companies rich, and they do not replace a healthy, balanced, diet.

My sister in law is an RN, she has told me that since gummi vitamins hit the market, children’s visits to the ER has significantly gone up alarmingly. Yet Congress, led by Charles Grassley of iowa, refuses to allow the FDA to regulate any kind of “nutritional” supplements, because they aren’t considered medicinal, despite the dangers of overdosing on them.

read the warning label Warning: taking multiple vitamins at once will result in the following side effects: cramps, indigestion, stomachache/acid reflux, burning, itching, shortness of breath… not intended for heart patients or those with short fuses.

me as a kid when mom wasn’t looking