We all need vitamins, but that doesn’t mean you need to take a vitamin. This week, science gave us another brick for the giant “vitamin pills are useless for most of us” sign that’s been under construction for a while. (It’s a metaphor, but I imagine it as something like the Hollywood sign, except nobody looks at it because they’re all busy shopping for vitamins in the valley below.)
https://vitals.lifehacker.com/which-vitamins-do-you-really-need-1826433744
* nothing but ramen all semester * vitamins that look like they’ll improve our health often turn out not to have that effect * Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements * 2012 review * This week’s study * Ritual * Care/of * sums up the appeal * the CDC’s report from 2012 * top sources