The women's gummy multivitamins I was taking pack three grams of sugar per gummy. "Food contains thousands of phyto-chemicals, fiber, and more that work together to promote good health that cannot be duplicated with a pill," said nutritionist Karen Ansel.Īnd if it's those tasty gummy vitamins we're falling back on, there's an even better chance we're not offsetting our sugar- and fat-laden diets. But popping a pill isn't going to make up for all those lost servings. When the average American is eating just one or two servings of fruits and veggies a day (experts recommend as many as 10 servings of fruits and veggies a day for maximum benefits), a little boost of vitamins might seem like a good idea. "Supplementation with extra vitamins or micronutrients doesn't really benefit you if you don't have a deficiency."Īmericans' abysmally bad diets also give vitamin companies some marketing ammunition. So why are so many Americans still taking multivitamins? Steven Salzberg, a medicine professor at Johns Hopkins, told NPR multivitamins are "a great example of how our intuition leads us astray." "It seems reasonable that if a little bit of something is good for you, then more should be better for you.
A much buzzed-about study published in Annals of Internal Medicine in 2013, for instance, came to this clear-cut conclusion after reviewing three trials of multivitamin supplements and 24 trials of "single or paired vitamins that randomly assigned more than 40,000 participants": These important roles, and the relatively large amounts of vitamin C required daily, likely explain why most vertebrate species are able to synthesize this. except there are a plethora of studies out there that back up her argument. That could be passed off as just one doctor's opinion. Moreover, for those who do have a deficiency in, say, Vitamin D or Vitamin B12, those little grape-shaped gummies - or any multivitamin, for that matter - don't pack anywhere near enough of any one vitamin to correct that deficiency, she explained. Though the idea of getting just a little bit more of all the most important vitamins may seem like a foolproof idea, she informed me that more isn't necessarily better. I'll miss that sugary, fruity taste - but, according to my doctor, that's about all I'll be missing.Īt my appointment last Wednesday, my doctor bluntly informed me that my multivitamins weren't doing a darn thing for me. Well, last week I threw my vitamins away.
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