Are Vitamin Supplements Worthwhile or Not?
You may be wondering at this point whether to toss those vitamins into your mouth or into the trash. That’s not surprising since several recent reports have called the value of vitamins into question, leaving people to wonder if it’s time to ditch their supplements all together. “People are so confused,” says Elisabetta Politi, the nutrition director at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center. “But vitamins are like insurance, and there’s no evidence that taking them is harmful.”
“While vitamins are not meant to be magic bullets of prevention, most Americans have poor eating habits and don’t get the daily recommended allowance of most vitamins and minerals,” Politi adds. “That’s why we continue to recommend a well-balanced multi-vitamin.” Comment: Then the whole message gets lost as this dietician start talking about “servings”. A nutritional term that mesn anything or nothing to the lay public. Such useless jargon should be extirpated from our language.
