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Please tell me the purpose of supplements if i can get all the nutrients i need from natural foods?
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Some nutrients are: only in small quantities in food and therefore the full benefits could only be obtained by eating very large quantities of food. For example, L-carnitine as normally dosed in supplement form would require eating several pounds of meat for an equivalent dose.
Answered 8/4/2014
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