Article: Vitamins balance modern eating habits

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Today the apple has been replaced by one-a-day megavitamins or dozens of individual vitamin and mineral pills.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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