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Article: How to get the nutrients you need: vitamin and mineral supplements help you feel your best and ward off illness. To reap their benefits, you need to take them the right way. (Consumer guide: how to be an educated consumer)(Cover Story).
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- Natural Health
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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TAKING VITAMIN AND MINERAL supplements may be one of the healthiest habits you can adopt. Mounting research suggests that supplements can help protect you against diseases like heart disease and cancer. "In addition to eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, I think it's smart to take vitamin and mineral supplements," says Jane Higdon, R.N., Ph.D., research associate at the Linus Pauling Institute in Corvallis, Wash. "Supplements are a good insurance policy" for times when your diet falls short, she says.
It's simpler (and cheaper) to take vitamins preventively than to treat disease when you're sick, but shopping for supplements is far from simple. The shelves in ...