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Why should I take vitamins?
My Dad keeps trying to get me to take some vitamins he bought for mre recently. He says they will keep me healthy and give me the nutrients that I am missing in my diet. I don't think I need vitamins at all because I eat pretty good foods. I eat fruits and vegetables almost every day. Why do I still need to take vitamins?
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It keeps your healthy, and helps your body. Just fruits and vegetables will not always keep you at your best, you need a good multi-vitamin to help your body.
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The Better Nutrition article (to be referred to as BN) stated that "your idea of a 'good diet' may not include all the essential nutrients" and that with pollution, stress, chronic illness, drugs and food of low nutritional value (presumably from conventional farming methods), it is reasonable that "a number of distinguished nutrition experts" believe that we should take supplements.
MY ANSWER: It is no doubt true that many peoples' idea of a "good diet" is inadequate. The nutritional orthodoxy believes that enriched flour is entirely adequate even though many nutrients are removed by processing and only a few are replaced by enriching. But this does not mean that supplements should be taken, but rather that proper foods should be chosen! Also, there is no proof that pollution and stress increase vitamin needs. If drugs increase vitamin need, the obvious answer is to discontinue their use if at all possible. Drugs have many harmful side effects besides increasing vitamin needs.
Also, the mention of nutritional values of foods grown with today's conventional farming methods brings up an important point. Plants synthesize all the vitamins they need from carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. Therefore, foods grown conventionally will have the same amounts of vitamins as those grown organically.
Finally, in all respect for the "distinguished nutrition experts" who believe that supplements are needed, it would be far preferable to choose the proper foods; many equally distinguished experts support this position.
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