Multivitamins—a Health Hazard?

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Okay, lets not take our vitamins but then eat stuff that has vitamins in it. its the same thing, if your worried that your eating to much at once, which I'm guessing is this nerds problem, chop a supplement up into 4 peices; take one w/ each meal. Its bad if you take anything in one sitting at a high dose, take 50 grams of protein a meal and you will have kidney stones.... just because your body can't process that much protein at once, common sense.

bob of NE 2:30PM July 10, 2010

Lollipops cause cancer, so does alcohol, which i've drank for 30 years and i dont have it.

scott of MT 2:27PM July 10, 2010

hi i am a nutritionist from south Fl, and i have never seen any one get hurt from a vitamin ever and i see peapole from all ages come in to my offices looking for ways to get healthy, so after taking a look at the person life style and work schedule, we go over a good diet and exercies plan that theey can live with i also incorporate some type of multivitamin because 99% of the time a reaguler american can not consum the right vitamins from the right foods (but yes getting your vitamins from there source foods is the best way to get them, but multivitamins are a good 2nd). so in short multivitamins have never been proven to hurt any one. also if they dont work for you but you still cant find time to eat all the right foods try phytonutrients which are plants with out water in pill form no chemicals with the exeption of what ever adhesive they use to hold it togather (which will not hurt you 99.99% of the time). i would like to finsh off but saying i am not paid by any viamin company i have came to all my conculsion from many years of experience and my own highly trained reseach. hope this helped

James of FL 6:45PM June 01, 2010

For those of you who are not eating healthy to begin with... You're body doesn't use the vitamins you pop in your mouth anyway. It has adapted to get nutrients out of BAD sources if anything at all. So in the end, if you are unhealthy already then popping the pills is NOT going to make it any better for you. Your already getting toxins into your system. You can't just flush it away with a magical pill. It will take months if not years of eating healthy to cure your body. You have to GET HEALTHY!!! You have to train your body to adapt back to a HEALTHY lifestyle. (INCLUDING EXERCISE!!!) I am going to stop taking my multi and start changing my eating habits. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO FREEDOM PEOPLE!!!

camoblamo of AK 11:33PM April 22, 2010

If you have a poor diet or food allergies, than yes, it's better to take vitamins than none at all. I'm allergic to many fruits and veggies, therefore I will never be able to eat them. Supplements are the only way I can get these vitamins.
And newsflash people. EVERYTHING CAUSES CANCER.

Darren Careen of VA 7:08PM April 12, 2010

i heard it on the news a few days ago and was instantly stunned. as myself along with a probably millions of people take multivitamins to increase our life spam etc. i didn't know something that a person is suppose to benefit you caused cancer. i have multi vitamins in the cabinet right now, haven't been using them ever since i heard it on the news i don't want cancer :(

alicia of CA 5:09PM April 09, 2010

Well of course if you have a balanced diet you don't need vitamins. What about for people like myself who have a terrible diet, always have, always will. Won't vitamins afford some protection?

Flarfy of CA 8:49AM March 26, 2010

I have heard that the big name companys spend most of their money on advertising and not their product. Try to take whole food concentrate vitamins. Your body is used to processing food not stuff they make in a lab.

Mark of CA 9:20PM March 18, 2010

you bet they don't want you to take anything healthy..............good grief you might live longer than they want!!!!!!! USA, fiftieth country in the WORLD for longevity !!!!!!!!! CAN YOU DIG THE GLOBALISTS?????

BARRY SEOTORO of OH 8:03PM February 26, 2010

Walter Willett has published over 1000 medline indexed journal articles. He is the second most medline-cited author in all of clinical medicine, and the first most cited nutritionist. This Dr. Simon fellow has credentials that pale in comparison to Willett. Simon is not a trained epidemiologist, and it is irresponsible for him to be making public health recommendations like this. Willett has carefully surveyed all the evidence on multivitamins and disease and concludes to this very day that a daily multivitamin will likely benefit almost all adults in the US. Listen to the man who knows what he's talking about -- not this fool Dr. Simon Who?

LN of MA 6:48PM December 29, 2009