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Article: Vitamins: what you need to know now; have you been hitting the bottle too hard? Melissa Gotthardt reports on the pros (and definite cons) of vitamin mania. (Minding your Body).
- Article from:
- O, The Oprah Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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YOU WAKE UP AND REACH FOR YOUR DAILY fix. One multi. An extra C. A couple of calcium chews. It's the healthy American way, right? About half the people in this country pop at least one supplement on a regular basis, and many don't stop there, gulping down carefully orchestrated handfuls of pills while shoring up their diets with fortified foods and beverages.
Yet, is there any evidence that supplements ward off cancer or heart disease, or keep you living a single day longer? Is there conclusive proof that vitamin pills do anything more than make you feel secure and cost you money? If so, which ones are really necessary? In what quantities? Can you go to excess? ...