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...doubled their spending on vitamins and minerals in the past six years, from $3 billion in 1990 to $6.5 billion in 1996. They have also ratcheted up the dosages they take, gulping down supplements at 10, 50, even 100 times the daily recommended levels. One-A-Day and other multivitamin products were originally designed to prevent such centuries-old nutritional deficiencies as scurvy and beriberi. But now the same micronutrients are being taken in megadoses--in effect, as drugs--to prevent or treat a broad range of illnesses, including psoriasis, tendinitis, cancer and heart disease...
Sonnenberg recommends a daily multivitamin only for backup purposes, not to exceed the RDA. "If people want to take vitamin and mineral supplements as backup. I would recommend one that provides up to 100% of U.S. recommended daily allowance," Sonnenberg says...
...only exceptions, Dwyer says, should be strict vegetarians, who can benefit from iron supplements. Dwyer also recommends specific vitamin and mineral supplements to compensate for those that individuals lack, rather than a multivitamin...
...from food, but I think a number of people are starting to rethink that," he says. "There probably is a large number of people who are not getting the optimal amount and we are finding ourselves broadening the number of people whom we think might benefit from a daily multivitamin...
...Some minerals like iron and calcium affect women more than men." Katz-Cohern says. "Menstruating women should stick to a multivitamin that contains iron...