According to the survey, more than half of the Americans take a variety of vitamins and health foods every day, but doctors and pharmacists say that many of them are just waste of money. According to the Daily Mail report, pharmacist Amina Khany tol...
According to the survey, more than half of the Americans take a variety of vitamins and health foods every day, but doctors and pharmacists say that many of them are just waste of money. According to the Daily Mail report, pharmacist Amina Khany told her 271,000 fans on TikTok that she would definitely not take three health foods.
is the most popular vitamin sugar, one of which is that it usually adds about three to five grams of sugar. It doesn't seem to be much, but it is recommended to use two per day; the American Heart Association recommends that women take up less than 25 grams per day, and men take up less than 36 grams per day.
Kahani said that these are basically sugar-sized, so it is better to eat some sweets; it is easy to overtake and may lead to mineral poisoning.
The doctor at the University of California, Los Angeles said that even if vitamin soft sugars are not sugary, they may contain other sweeteners, such as high-sugar juices or sugar alcohols, which can easily cause digestive problems.
Family doctor Zariah Chappell said that it’s like eating sugar or candy for 365 days a year, and a lot of sugar will quickly accumulate; children, especially those who may take too much vitamin because they taste good and even look like candy.
Secondly, Kahani said that comprehensive vitamins are not worth taking, because studies have shown that these vitamins usually contain only minor and important vitamins and minerals; and that humans do not need all of them.
Johns Hopkins University studied 450,000 people and found that comprehensive vitamins did not have any benefits for preventing cardiac disease. Another study looked at 1,700 people who had had heart disease, who took a combined vitamin or comfort twice a day for five years; the results showed that those who took a combined vitamin were not different from the risk of heart disease or death.
Finally, Kahani pointed out that the health foods that can improve hair, skin and nail health on social media are also ineffective. She said a better approach is to take a single health food for a problem, such as vitamin B8, which thickens hair and vitamin D promotes skin cell regeneration.
Associate Professor Pieter Cohen of Harvard Medical School said he was not aware of any powerful data that shows that any health food can cure hair or nail damage related to natural aging, or make the skin healthier. He said nothing would allow him to recommend it to the patient.
Responsible editor: Gu Zihuan
