Should You Take Vitamins Supplements? Discover Here All The Info

Should You Take Vitamins Supplements? Discover Here All The Info You Need

”Everyone who has in the past eaten sugar, white flour, or canned food has some deficiency disease. . . .”

Since vitamins occur in all organic material, some containing more of one vitamin than another and in greater or lesser amounts, you could say that if you ate the “right” foods in a well-balanced diet, you would get alt the vitamins you need.

And you would probably be right. The problem is, very few of us are able to arrange this mythical diet. According to Dr. Darnel T. Quigley, author of The National Malnutrition, “Everyone who has in the past eaten processed sugar, white flour, or canned food has some deficiency disease, the extent of the disease depending on the percentage of such deficient food in the diet.”

Because most restaurants tend to reheat food or keep it warm under heat lamps, if you frequently eat out you run the risk of vita- min A, B1, and C deficiencies. (And if you’re a woman between the ages of 13 and 40, this sort of work-saving dining is likely to cost you invaluable calcium and iron.)

Most of the...