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By Shereen Jegtvig, About.com Guide to Nutrition since 2004

Do You Need a Multivitamin Supplement?

Tuesday September 25, 2007
Many experts believe that a healthy balanced diet will provide you with all of the nutrients you need. If you go to your local grocery store, pharmacy or big discount store, you will find rows of multivitamins and dietary supplements. Do you think you really need them? Is there any evidence that taking dietary supplements every day does any good?

Before you go out and buy a daily vitamin or other dietary supplements, read Do I Really Need to Take Vitamins? to learn more.

Poll: Do you take multiple-vitamin and mineral supplements?

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Comments

October 21, 2007 at 5:18 pm
(1) Randy Powell says:

Even when eating a healthy diet, it couldn’t hurt to take an occassional multivitamin. I prefer my vitamin in liquid form. It is more absorbable this way.

December 18, 2007 at 7:11 am
(2) Bush says:

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