![]() ![]() But thanks to our love of processed foods (whose natural vitamins and other chemicals have often been removed or destroyed), this is exactly what most of us are not doing. Yet despite a century of scientific research, there is little consensus around even the simplest of questions, whether it's exactly how much we each require or what these thirteen dietary chemicals actually do.The one thing experts do agree on is that the best way to get our nutrients is in the foods that naturally contain them. Yes, we need vitamins without them, we would die. Instead, we outsource our questions to experts and interpret "vitamin" as shorthand for "health."What we don't realize is that the experts themselves are surprisingly short on answers. ![]() We believe vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better-yet few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. ![]() Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. ![]()
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