Im big into eating healthy and drink 100 percent natural drinks that have a full serving of fruits and vegetables, and I also take a multi vitamin. Am i getting any benefit out taking the vitamin?
Dolores
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Probably not. With a properly balanced diet you can get all the nutrients you need unless you have some deficiency disease. Many people will argue this point but think about it. A multi vitamin may not have the vitamin you need the most. And what about minerals. The vitamin tablet doesn’t contain minerals but a balanced diet does. The best choice is still a balanced diet.
PhD Food Chemistry and Nutrition
Over the past several decades the farming techniques of the world have begun to deplete the soil so food grown on it is not as nutritional as it once was. And store bought produce loses a lot of its nutrients between harvesting, shipping, time spent in stores and in your home before you prepare them. And they could lose a lot more nutrients depending on how you prepare them.
The 1992 Earth Summit Report indicates that the mineral content of the world’s farm and range land soil has decreased dramatically.
The percentage of mineral depletion from soil during the past 100 Yyrs, by continent show:
North America 85%
South America 76%
Asia 76%
Africa 74%
Europe 72%
Australia 55%
Some US farms are showing a 100% depletion and some a 60% depletion. The average is 85% depletion as compared to 100 years ago. This is worse than in any other country in the world because of the extended use of inorganic fertilizers and mass farming methods being used today.
You don’t need to go out and buy a mega-multi but I take a multi just to be on the safe side.
The second source is a company, but it has a good report on the study.
Multi-vitamins aren’t gonna hurt you. They just make up for any nutriants that might be lacking. You *** out what you don’t need. So what I heard.
