Take Your Vitamins Daily

By: Jean Carper

If you're not taking a multivitamin, you should, and your doctor should encourage you to, insists a new report by a panel of experts headed by Jeffrey Blumberg, Ph.D., of Tufts University and David Heber, M.D., of UCLA.

A daily supplement can lessen infections and may reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis and macular degeneration.

The people most likely to lack the nutrients found in a daily multivitamin/ mineral pill are low-calorie dieters, obese adults, teenagers with poor eating habits, older people and pregnant women. Shockingly, only 40% of doctors urge women of childbearing age to take vitamins, even though it's known that folate (a B vitamin) prevents birth defects.

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