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Are you taking a supplement to boost your health? Most
vitamins are “a waste of money and have no benefits”
Highlights
● Multivitamins containing vegetable extracts have “no-benefits”.
● Monash Professor Ken Harvey has spoken against vitamin companies.
● He says some consumers believe vitamins can substitute a healthy lifestyle.
● Another health expert said clinical vitamins were necessary for patients.
David Jeans June 12, 2016
Gullible consumers are being exploited by vitamin companies advertising vegetable extracts in their products which offer no real health benefits, according to a health expert. Professor Ken Harvey, from Melbourne’s Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, has spoken against vitamin giants to warn consumers that multivitamins are a “waste of time and money”, according to Herald Sun.
He said “so-called” vegetable extracts that are advertised on vitamin packets are contained in minuscule quantities that provide no benefit for the consumer. He said consumers can fall into the trap of believing that vitamins can replace a healthy lifestyle including regular exercise and a sound diet, according to the report. “There’s a case for many of these supplements to be used as directed,” he said. “But for the worried well people, many of them are not needed.”
“The general message is that the vast amount of multivitamins consumed by the vast number of normal people is a waste of time and money,” Prof Harvey told the newspaper.
Associate Professor Tim Crowe, from Deakin University’s School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, said in most cases vitamins sought out by “worried well” people were rarely necessary. He said there was a legitimate need for clinical patients to take individual supplements, including iron tablets for people with iron deficiencies.
An Australian Self-Medication Industry spokesperson reportedly said the industry was stringently regulated.
(www.dailymail.co.uk. Adaptado.)
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