{"id":1273,"date":"2020-02-12T05:57:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2020-02-14T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T06:05:48","slug":"why-vitamins-are-almost-always-a-waste-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=1273","title":{"rendered":"Why Vitamins Are (Almost Always) a Waste of Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vitamins are in the middle of a glow-up. A crop of new startups have made the fusty GNC staples, dare we say it, cool: Care\/of sends out monthly shipments of beautiful multicolored capsules based on a personality quiz. Ritual packs theirs into sleek clear pills that look like little lava lamps. Vitafive ships theirs out as sleekly packaged gummies.<\/p>\n

So take your vitamins, right? Allow me to hem and haw and equivocate. There are certainly cases where people need to take them: People that don\u2019t get enough sun might find themselves short of vitamin D\u2014supplements can help with this, though so can eating a little more salmon or canned tuna. Pregnant women should take folic acid, period.<\/p>\n

But one thing that\u2019s there\u2019s no need to equivocate about? Studies have found that vitamins taken for overall health\u2014which generally takes the form of the daily multivitamin\u2014are useless for the average American adult. Most of us get what we need from our diets. And even though some people don\u2019t have an ideal diet, vitamins still haven’t been shown to make us healthier. They have no clear effect on lifespan, heart health, disease prevention, or cognitive function. At best, they don\u2019t hurt or help us, but they can interact badly with medication or even make us feel licensed to indulge in more unhealthy behaviors.<\/p>\n

Most vitamin sellers claim only that they\u2019ll help \u201cfill in the gaps\u201d of our imperfect diets. It\u2019s just insurance, they say. But why, in that case, would a person concerned with their health not just try and eat a little better? Good food has all the vitamins you need and is also full of helpful, but not essential, micronutrients\u2014antioxidants and the like. (By good food, we\u2019re talking fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains\u2014real basic food pyramid stuff.) And while there\u2019s nothing to indicate that vitamins improve the health of the average person, studies are clear that leveling up your diet is as close to a guaranteed way to improve your health as we\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n

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