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Originally Posted by Qwerty
Quick Question; Do you guys take a multi-vitamin/mineral type pill daily to make sure you are getting everything needed? If so which do you recommend?
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The evidence is mounting that we do not normally need multi-vitamins:
http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1789253
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhus...d-not-be-used/
Writing about three new papers in the Annals of Internal Medicine that find no benefits for the use of multivitamins — only the latest in a long line of negative findings — Eliseo Guallar and colleagues write: …we believe that the case is closed— supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough.