It seems like simple, obvious advice: Eat your vegetables, get some exercise, and — of course — take your vitamins.
Or not.
Decades of research has failed to find any substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any significant good. In fact, recent studies skew in the opposite direction, having found that certain vitamins may be bad for you.
Several supplements have been linked with an increase in certain cancers, for example, while others have been associated with a rise in the risk of kidney stones. Still others have been linked with an overall higher risk of death from any cause.
So here are the vitamins and supplements you should take — and the ones you should avoid:
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3 comments:
I'm no scientist but 1000mg of vitamin c each day boosts my energy level way up each day and never feel depressed either.
Very few people actually eat enough healthy foods to get the vitamins they need. There is not much nutritional value in all the processed food that is sold nowadays. You're better off to take vitamins as insurance that you at least get daily requirements.
Yet another in a long line of B.S. studies.
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