Do vitamin pills really work?
I’ve been taking some Flinstone 20 in 1 Vitamin tablets (with food) , but while looking around on Google, I found out vitamin pills do not give you the vitamins they guarantee you, but they can actually do you harm. Is this true?
December 14th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Vitamins do help, especially the real ones.
But not all of them were born equal.
Like to waste your money? Buy the Centrum!
December 14th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
….nope
December 14th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
The issue isn’t that the vitamins you get from a processed pill aren’t actually in there. It’s that vitamin A in a megadose and all by itself isn’t nearly as beneficial to your body as vitamin A in a sweet potato mingling with other phytonutrients and vitamins, in a more appropriate dose for just one day.
There are some supplements that when taken in too high of dosage can harm you – vitamins A, D, E and K are the first that come to mind, as well as some of the B vitamins. Multivitamins usually contain ridiculous amounts of each vitamin, as much as 500% or 1000% of your recommended daily intake (which generally is a very high number to begin with!).
So I would recommend that you focus on getting all the vitamins you need from your diet. Ditch the pill and load your plate up with colorful, fresh produce instead.