Do You Need a Daily Multivitamin?
DO YOU NEED A DAILY MULTIVITAMIN? After hearing from my doctor that I didn’t really need it, I stopped taking a daily multivitamin a couple of years ago. And now I’m seeing articles from reliable sources saying the same thing: Healthy adults over age 50 simply don’t need a multivitamin. I searched for a source to pass on some of the details behind this advice to give you. Here are excerpts from the recent Johns Hopkins Medicine online newsletter Is There Really Any Benefit to Multivitamins? Half of all American adults—including 70 percent of those age 65 and older—take a...