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Vitamins are natural substances that your body needs to grow, develop, and function normally. Vitamins may be contained in food. Balanced diets usually provide all of the vitamins required. However, there are times, such as during pregnancy and childhood or certain illnesses when your body needs more vitamins than normal. Multivitamins can be prescribed for people who need extra vitamins. This is because they cannot eat enough food to consume the required vitamins or they cannot receive the full benefit of the vitamins contained in the food they eat.

Multivitamins are dietary supplements that contain vitamins and minerals. They are available in forms of tablets, capsules, pastilles, powder, and liquids. On the other hand injectable formulations have to be taken under medical supervision. Now that multivitamins are recognized as a category of food and people are free to consume as they please.

According to Roc Ordman’s nutrition site, a number of studies on thousands of people have shown that, for people in this country, multivitamins are at least of no value, but actually may increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses! How can this be? Consider what happens when you take a multivitamin that claims to supply 100% of the vitamins and minerals you need. A typical diet also provides about 100% of what you need daily. Taken together, you are getting 200%, twice as much as you need, more than you need. Twice as many calories as you need is bad. In addition here are some statistics.