Save money and ditch your multi-vitamin
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 20:33 Oh, boy did I ever used to be a ‘true believer’ about the power of the vitamin pill. Back in the 1970’s I read Adele Davis, and got on the bandwagon with mega-doses of this, that and the other thing. But over the last couple decades I’ve been getting rid of them one by one.
This has happened as the scientific research simply failed to document what those hawking the vitamins claimed.
Today, I take 3,000 to 4,000 I.U. daily of Vitamin D3 (that much because I’ve had cancer) and a couple of fish oil/Omega 3 capsules. That’s all I take in the way of supplements.
Vitamin D3 can’t be gotten from food sources, only coming from sunlight. It has also been shown, in study after study to reduce the risk of initial cancers, in addition to reducing the recurrence of cancer. It also strengthens bones. We don’t get as much as we used to historically, since we live most of our lives indoors, and we use suncreen.
The vitamin industry is a multi-billion dollar business, that I believe, exists largely to get into the wallets of Americans afraid of getting sick.
It seems that I’m not alone in this belief:
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