NUTRITION AND FOOD

You do the math: You could be getting up to five times what your body needs. Are we toting up toxic levels of vitamins? Or throwing our money away?

Juice concentrates, malted drinks, protein shakes, fortified ready-to-eat cereals – all claim to contain loads of vitamins and minerals, up to 100% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA). Then, too, specially blended multivitamins, with hot new “additives” such as ginseng and CoQ10, are increasingly lining the shelves of chemists and sports stores today, and proving irresistible to health nuts. In fact, many people don’t even know what they’re taking, how  much they are taking and how much they should take.