http://healthyonliving.com The health, safety and well-being of yourself is your first priority. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:24:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://healthyonliving.com/2009/02/philosophy-of-excess-vitamin/ http://healthyonliving.com/2009/02/philosophy-of-excess-vitamin/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:08:32 +0000 Jay http://healthyonliving.com/?p=3 It is true that virtually everyone in the general population is at risk of deficiency, because we just don’t eat right. But elderly people, people on crash/fad diets, strict vegans, and alcoholics are at even higher risk. Multivitamin supplements play an important role in shoring up this deficiency.
Vitamin supplementation offers clear benefits for people with nutritional deficiencies and those at risk for them, including young children and elderly people with chronic illnesses. Women who start taking folic acid even before getting pregnant and early in pregnancy greatly reduce their child’s risk of being born with birth defects.
But experts are increasingly of the view that overdoing the supplement bit is now becoming a matter of taking in too much of a good thing, especially for ordinary people with no health conditions.

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