MY kids don't have that!

[HYHYBT]

Why would Catholicism object to anything on the grounds of its supporting evolution? Last I heard, they're not officially against it.

[TheHuckster]

Why would Catholicism object to anything on the grounds of its supporting evolution? Last I heard, they're not officially against it.

The Vatican are not against it. However, there are still some groups of Catholics who believe evolution is a lie.

[wolfie]

I think that's just another variation on the trend that seems to be going on that if something is bad in excessive quantities (like salt, sugar, fat, alcohol, etc.) then it must be avoided at all costs.

Kids who chow down on 5000 calories of food per day are going to wind up obese. Excessive quantities of fat-soluble vitamins (A and D are prime offenders) are toxic. Routinely breathing 100% oxygen is bad for you (I believe it was Priestly's experimentation with the new gas he had isolated that resulted in the mouse exposed to it in pure form becoming hyperactive and then dying). By this "logic", kids should be starved, deprived of all traces of fat-soluble vitamins, and be kept from breathing 80/20 nitrogen/oxygen mixture (a.k.a. air).

[Nekojin]

Excessive quantities of fat-soluble vitamins (A and D are prime offenders) are toxic.

Not to pick nits with your otherwise excellent post, but Vitamin D toxicity is very, very difficult to do under normal circumstances. For a 150 lb. person, you'd have to take ~270 mg of vitamin D caplets (usually in 1 to 2 mg doses) to start approaching toxic levels.

For a normal person with normal (or even fast food abnormal) dietary intake, the addition of a few extra Vitamin D capsules every day is a miniscule risk (and the only reason I don't say "no risk" is because everything you do involves some degree of risk).

http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/about...in-d-toxicity/