I don't take multivitamins, or any vitamins. I hate them and I figure, if I eat a fairly well rounded diet, why do I need to take some pill. My local supermarket sells oranges, asparagus, and strawberries year round, and I often thwart the eat local people and buy strawberries in November, or oranges in June, so I was fairly certain that I wouldn't get any strange vitamin deficiency disease. Plus I was pretty sure that throwing extra stuff in your body that doesn't come from food is, in fact, not good for you. This hasn't stopped my mother and mother in law from trying to get me to take them, like some street corner Centrum pushers. My mother in law took to leaving them by my plate at breakfast when we visited, where I would studiously ignore them. In one memorable instance my mother and I had a physical altercation in a hotel room in Paris, where she tried to shove a multivitamin into my mouth while I kept my mouth firmly closed and tried to spit on her (jet lag and being up for 36 hours straight also played a part in that scene). Anyway, I am happy to report that I won! I was right! Multivitamins are not good for you and are in fact BAD for you!
I was looking on line and ran across this little nugget:
Time to kick the multivitamin habit, studies suggest, Daily supplements don't help prevent disease and may actually cause some harm. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39616169
They are now finding that multivitamins do NOTHING for you and actually increase your risk of certain types of cancer. So for all the times I have had to sit there listening to a lecture on how I should take a multivitamin, I post this as my first daily injustice.
