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Article: Vitamins balance modern eating habits
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- Electrical Apparatus
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Copyright informationCopyright Barks Publications Jan 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A good multi-vitamin a day-rather than an applemay be what you need to keep the doctor away
REMEMBER WHEN THE accepted prescription for good health was "an apple a day keeps the doctor away?"
You don't hear that adage much anymore, probably because the apple is no longer considered a magic bullet to ward off malnutrition or prevent illness.
Today the apple has been replaced by one-a-day megavitamins or dozens of individual vitamin and mineral pills.
And that's okay. The benefits of apple eating-more likely dreamed up on Madison Avenue rather than at the Mayo Clinic-are highly overrated. Although a great low-calorie (about 75) hunger quencher, a raw apple typically provides only 9% of ...
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