Do You Take Your Vitamins?

The article that I read was called “Study finds one-third of US kids take vitamins” by Lindsey Tanner of the Associated Press. The article was stating that there was a national state study of what kids took vitamins and who did not. Most people would assume that people in lower income communities do not take vitamins. But the study show that thirty-four percent of the vitamin takers were children and adults who were already healthy or wealthy. Doctors suggest take if you already are healthy and get your daily vitamin intake you really should not take vitamins. But kids and adults who have poor diets and might be obese should receive more vitamins. Doctors do not want people to rely on vitamin pills, they doctors want people to increase the foods that have more vitamins. They suggested that people should increase the daily intake of vitamin D and calcium, even if you are already healthy because doctors feel as if people do not get enough of these two vitamins.


I pick this topic because since I’m a Health Science major most of everything I read is about health. Since this semester, I have three Health Science classes and all I hear all day is things relating to health. I also chose this article because I wanted to know the statistics of how many people took vitamins. I believe people do not take pill vitamins because they are so expensive. The article mention that it cost ten dollars on a 100 bottled of multi-vitamins. Americans spend two billion dollars annually on these pills. I myself do not take vitamins; my parents never gave them to me. Another thing this article mention was that people should not take vitamins and continued to eat unhealthy. Some people may get it confuse and forget that they need a balance in life between being healthy and eating junk.