Do you take VITAMINS?  

I'm taking supplement instead, protection for the liver and heart, with the condition of our environment, with this pollution.. we need to be more conscious about our health.

We're aging too fast and these hazards added to the process, dang, I missed the old days where air is still clean, rivers are still fresh.

This is very interesting! I have taken a multivitamin tablet plus iron for many years. In the past year, I have eaten less food, cutting back on sugar, starches, and red meat. I find that I don't need the vitamin anymore.

I do not take vitamins tablets on regular basis. Only during sickness which is very rare take few pills. Vitamins requirement can be completed from various types of food. But the people prefer shortcut method, so problem arises.

I do take vit C from time to time....

And pertaining to the study you mentioned, I would say... take it with a pinch of salt. I won't say they are all not to be believed but do you remember the times when conflicting viewpoints can arise over the same issue, even many years apart?

Like last time, milk is supposed to be beneficial for all the calcium and all. Now they are saying that taking milk actually hampers calcium.

Alcohol used to be bad, now they are saying it's good in moderation.

Last time low fat diets was the rage? Now? Low protein? No. Low Carbs? No. Low calories? Ha!

There are many more examples and one can rattle on and on.

So I would say, just try to have a balanced diet. Eat in moderation a bit of everything (rat poison aside! :P).

Hope this helps.

As in all things we should strive for balance. Vitamins and minerals are indeed among those things that can be of help to us when our diet or physical condition calls for it. I heard that anything you take you only absorb about 80 per cent of it anyway. Seems like a waste of money on some level.
I have often charged that any scientist can can do a study to back up their belief. So I wonder often when these studies come out what their motivation is.

It was a period of my life that i felt without any power.My brother suggest me to take some vitamins,as I did.The first days i felt little better but after few days no different.I decided stop take them + I hate tablets so I never didn't take vitamin gain and as I read your topic I saw I did the best.

I have always wondered if this was another health craze hoax or if vitimins really can make a difference. I was taking them over the last several years, but not recently.

I don't know if this study is accurate or what all the dynamics are, but I would bet that for some people, they actually lived longer by taking vitimins. The results say that lifespans were reduced and that was probably for the majority.

This is another of those never ending questions that has individual answers. How can anyone know for sure how much vitamins and minerals they are getting from eating or taking supplements? I think it depends on how much is actually absorbed into the body. And how can you measure that for every individual?

Finally, I am beginning to believe, without a doubt, that health is a matter of how we think. Healthy thinking will result in healthy living. I believe that health comes from a state of mind as much as from anything else. As long as we do little to detract from being in a healthy state, like smoking, over-eating or drinking, etc, we can live healthier lives. I also believe the mind has the power to cure many diseases and sicknesses.

I've tried to take vitamins a lot of different time over the past 10 years or so. I could never keep up with taking them though because of bad stomach upset and other side effects related to my GI tract. I've always had people telling me that I should keep trying to find one that works for me because it's important to take some sort of vitamin everyday. I had no idea of the negative effects they could have on a person. Now I don't feel so bad about not taking them all of this time.

i think if we have a regul alimentation like "mediterranean diet" we shold haven't particular problems... baut in some periods (problems with health) of our life we must take a particular integrator for minerals and vitamins

WOW, that's scary, I actually take supplements, Has about 32 different vitamins in it...I've been taking these for a number of years and nothing has happened but my metabolism has boosted. I actually eat pretty good and never gain much weight if any...I also work out about 3 days a week...Intersting topic...thanks for sharing this also...