"Almost one-third of U.S. children take some form of dietary supplement, most often multivitamins and multiminerals, according to a study conducted in part by researchers at RTI International and the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health."There are exactly seven nutrients on the planet: fat, carbohydrate, protein, minerals, vitamins, water and alcohol.
Virtually none need to be supplemented for most people.
The first three contain Calories.
The last thing we need to supplement, for most people, are Calories.
The next three contain no Calories.
There are very few people who suffer from too little vitamins, minerals or water.
If you need to supplement your alcohol intake, this is the wrong place for you.
Go to DrunkWatch.
For just about everybody, supplements are useless and, in fact, harmful.
First are the Calories. Fat people do not need more Calories.
Second is the waste. Even if all a person does is take a non-caloric multi-vitamin/mineral, it is not useful, i.e., they did not require supplementation.
Third and most important, is the false sense of doing something to improve "health" taking supplements gives. Taking supplements does not improve health. It likely worsens it, especially the Calorie-containing supplements.
Because fat people, in particular, are unwilling to exert self-control and cut back on consumption, they do what they do best and stick more crap down their throats rationalizing this by thinking it will undo all the harm they caused from swallowing too many Calories.
They also do the same to harm their nutritionally abused children.
"'Dietary supplements are an important source of nutrition for American children, but national estimates of nutrition intake rarely account for them,' said Samara Joy Nielsen, Ph.D., a nutrition epidemiologist at RTI and the paper's co-author."Wrong.
They are a "significant" source perhaps, but not an "important" source.
They are a bad source, too.
Stop supporting the supplement industry.
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