If you’re slamming vitamins because the vitamin makers told you they’re good for you, maybe reconsider
Four out of every 10 Canadians are regularly popping vitamin pills, fuelling a $370 million-a-year vitamin industry that just keeps getting bigger.“Enough is enough: Stop wasting money on vitamin and mineral supplements,” reads one critique of our collective vitamin habit published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.In our world of vitamin-fortified juice and breakfast cereals, the average North American is getting more than enough vitamins simply from eating a relatively balanced diet.
What’s more, we are utterly barraged with misinformation about what vitamins actually do: Vitamin C doesn’t cure colds and vitamin D doesn’t cure depression. In truth, all they can definitively do is ward off scurvy and strengthen bones, respectively.• Twitter: TristinHopper | Email: [email protected]
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