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Article: Eat a balanced diet and you won't need extra vitamins
- Article from:
- Herald Express (Torquay UK)
- Article date:
- April 19, 2008
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A journalist once told me that his paper only knew two drugs;
miracle cures and killer drugs. Vitamins seem to have gone from
miracles to killers in the last week. Both extremes are wrong.
Some people see vitamins as Popeye saw spinach; pour them in the
mouth and see the muscle grow as energy levels rise. Sadly, this
only works in cartoons.
It may seem unromantic but life consists of a series of
complicated chemical pathways, and there are essential chemicals
needed for each step.
The body can make most of the chemicals but there are a few we
need to 'import' by eating other animals or plants.
When it was first realised there are some essential ingredients
it was thought they were all amines ...
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