Posted by Neal on February 18, 2009, at 4:19:24
In reply to Re: Start Questioning Vitamins? » Neal, posted by yxibow on February 18, 2009, at 0:33:26
BTW; my original post was a quote; none of it was my comments.
I did not post the whole article. The article went on to say that calcium was the only thing that has panned out for something, but I right now can't remember what it was! (helpful, huh)
I still take a small bit of multivitamin, probably for the same reason we all do; the fear that we don't get a balanced diet, an idea drilled into our heads by the food police.
But I read somewhere about a study claiming that vitamin B actually caused depression in some people, after having used it on and off for years. Well maybe I can now throw-out all the ADs ;-]
Anyway I don't think anything's been proved one way or another yet for sure. To the person who mentioned about the ancient ancestors, yeh, but they also suffered from pelegra and other things from vitamin deficiencies when eating one kind of food too long.
The modern balanced diet is just that - modern. But that's precisely why we might not need vitamins; we by and large eat a balanced diet these days.
But I think vitamins and health foods have been vastly oversold. If any of you are spending a lot of hard-earned money on vitamins, supplements, and (possibly) organically grown foods, you might be able to save some money, that's all.
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