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It's good for ur health to take vitamins and suplements every day? i'm a flight attendant and don't sleep, eat properly every day! thanks
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Mostly No: Vitamins & supplements are big business, cheap to extract from lots of low cost sources & food waste, formulated into doses estimated to be too low to be harmful for nearly anyone & commonly too low to be helpful for anyone with a specific need. No good clinical trials; nearly all marketing (big profit margins to pay for this), large observational studies have shown no benefit yet higher mortality.
Answered 12/10/2013
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