Article: Start the Year Right: Consumer Reports Offers Healthy Advice on Multivitamins, Treadmills.

Byline: Consumers Union

YONKERS, N.Y., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumer Reports' January report, "Multivitamins: What to Avoid, How to Choose," is a comprehensive guide to making safe, sensible, economic choices about multivitamins. Some of the roughly 75 million Americans who buy multivitamins may not need them at all, while others spend extra for megadoses, exotic nutrients, or special formulations that may be unnecessary. Some of those high doses may even be harmful. Consumer Reports includes recommendations for the optimal doses of the 18 essential nutrients, plus the amounts that could be dangerous.

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