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Article: Should you take a vitamin supplement?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 12, 1991
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I was startled to find four huge containers of vitamin and
mineral supplements on a friend's kitchen counter. She takes some of
each every day. In total, they achieved levels that could eventually
have negative side effects.
Their saving grace is that they are very expensive, so she
probably will not go on taking these quantities for long.
Thirty-five percent of American adults reported taking vitamin
or mineral supplements in 1990, according to the annual survey of the
Vitamin Nutrition Information Service of supplement manufacturer
Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc. But only 28 percent took them almost every day.
Of those who take supplements, most take either one (57 percent)
or two (21 ...