Nutritional supplements. Do you really need them?

This is a soapbox that I’ve stood firmly on for a couple decades now, as study after study has failed to show conclusive evidence that supplements do anything more than drain your wallet of money. In these hard economic times, it’s important to overcome wishful thinking about supplements. This is hard in the face of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent marketing them to us, and the little that is done to control the claims they make.

You can also thank the anti-government types for this. Leaving it up to the supplement industry to police themselves hasn’t been a success under any measure.

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