Do We Need Multivitamins?

The food that we take in today’s time, hardly has any vitamins and other essentials left in it. Because of the way the crops are grown using chemicals, storage, and the way we cook them all these things hardly make the food we take nutritious. Not only this, it is also difficult to get Fresh fruits and vegetables, so those people who are health conscious, want to substitute this lack, with supplements and multivitamins. In the beginning people used to think that if we take a daily dose of vitamins or minerals apart from the food we take, it will help in protecting one’s health. But later on studies have shown that, multivitamins cannot protect the major functioning organs of the body such as, brain or heart, though they have been to some extent useful in reducing cataracts and cancer. Some researchers believe that it is useless to use multivitamins, while others believe it is good to do so. In such a situation, naturally we have a question in our mind, why d...