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But our food already contains a variety of vitamins. :)

Someone wrote to the weekend paper asking the resident doc if multivitamins are beneficial. The reply included that eating plenty of fruit and veggies are associated with a healthier life, then the...

rodt and mahk - do you ever think of eating vegies, fruit, and nuts? To me they comprise the best nutrition around. :)

Hi Korn, yes I did used to take B12 supplement, and once took multivitamins, but then, after a careful reading of The China Study, I decided to stop supplements - though I know that the good doctor...

Somehow I take exception to this posting by j&k, because I am not short of any of those items, and have been a vegan for many years.

All are provided in my diet and not from supplements. For...

Don't be conned StmpyE. B complex is sufficient and it does include B12. As for the rest, spirulina, iron, calcium etc - well they may look damn good in the advertising literature, but you'll only be...

In other words you don't need so much, that is why you excrete the excess. Just think about all those others in the same situation, plus women taking HRT or 'the pill', etc, and other medications...

Hi Korn, you refer to homocysteine, and say it isn't something you get from food, but which is produced by the body. Yet you then go on to say that lacto-vegetarians have lower homocysteine levels...

Here's an email message from pcrm:
"Folic acid and vitamin B12 supplements cut the risk of hip fracture by approximately 80%, according to a new JAMA study. The two-year randomized trial included...

There's an interesting article here on taking supplements: http://www.thehealthcrusader.com/pgs/excalibur/article_2004_12_31_0012.shtml

At your age Tigerlily, you shouldn't have to take vitamins.

We've already got a thread here with plenty of comments - it's called supplementation.

This article about vitamin E, in today's BBC on-line news, is rather disturbing. I don't take vitamin E tablets, but the final sentence states: "Vitamin E is found in nuts, seeds, green leafy...

This 'Independent' article states that vitamins may increase the death rate of users: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=567650 :confused:

Daily multivitamin + B12 tab. And a tablespoon of flax seed oil, is that a supplement?