![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though researchers may understand what vitamins are on a basic level - scientists have names for them, know humans need them to survive, and have a general sense of what purposes they serve - Price notes that no one fully understands exactly what they do, nor the potential negative consequences of saturating our bodies with huge quantities of them. ![]() According to journalist Catherine Price in her new book Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection, this gap in knowledge has allowed an expensive - and potentially dangerous - delusion to take hold. And yet despite the fact that scientists have been researching them for over a century, vitamins are still poorly understood by nutritionists - not to mention laypeople. Americans drink vitamin-enriched sports drinks, eat vitamin-fortified foods, and spend billions of dollars yearly on multivitamins. Now “taking our vitamins” is almost automatic for a big chunk of the population. Armstrong Roberts/Getty Images, Shutterstockįor many Americans, taking vitamins - often fruity Flintstones-themed ones - before heading off to school was a regular part of daily childhood life. ![]()
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