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Originally Posted by Apollo
What do you all think of this CNN article on vitamins and supplements:
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It's old news. I agree that people who are healthy with no medical conditions who eat a well-balanced diet, don't drink [excessively] or smoke, and get regular exercise probably don't need to take a multivitamin.
Anyone here meet that description?
From the article:
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Gladys Block, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at University of California Berkeley, pointed out that the group of men followed in the cognitive study were all physicians with no health problems.
"These are very well-nourished, very health-conscious people," she said.
In fact, she says none of the studies accurately represents the American population.
Block has spent her life studying the role of Vitamin C, in particular, on disease risk factors and says that most Americans are undernourished. She says that most Americans don't have a healthy diet, and therefore don't get the vitamins and minerals they need.
"You're not getting any of these micronutrients from Coke and Twinkies," said Block.
"Two-thirds of us are overweight, a quarter over 50 have two or more chronic conditions, so there's a substantial population that one would hesitate to call healthy."
Block went on to say, "There's always a nontrivial minority that's actually getting a questionable level of some micronutrients. So multivitamins are a backstop against our poor diet."
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