Is it harmul to take a multivitamin everyday?

Question

i read an article saying that it deteriorates health over a long period of time but i just can't eat an insane amount of fruits & veggies everyday!!!

Answer 1

FDA aprovement is good, you should also keep in mind, that what your actual daily need of vitamins is, and all so keep in mind, that even if you dint eat those tonnes of fruit but most things actually contain vitamins. So if you take a pill with the daily douses of vitamins you actually over douse yourself considering that most likely you will eat something with them. But that is nothing that will cause any harm just a perception, vitamin overdose will not happen if you take one pill of multivitamin every day. I myself would recommend that you, for example take some multivitamins for two weeks then hold two weeks pause. It gives your body a chance to actually use up some of the vitamins that are stored instead of having a permanent over douse of everything.

Allso something to note, water solvent vitamins leave your body in about one day, and very little is stored from them, most multivitamins only contain water solvent vitamins. Lipid solvent vitamins are actualy some that might store in your system and cause vitamin overdouse.

Answer 2

I'd like to read that article.

I've never heard that it might be harmful to take a multivitamin every day - just the opposite - if you have a poor diet - your health might well deteriorate over a long period of time without taking a daily multivitamin.
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Multivitamins help bridge the nutritional gaps found in most people's diets.

According to an article published in 2002 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard researchers David H. Fletcher, M.D., MSC and Kathleen M. Fairfield, M.D., DrPH reported the following: "Most people do not consume an optimal amount of all vitamins by diet alone. It appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements." [2]


A standard multivitamin supplement doesn't come close to making up for an unhealthy diet. It provides a dozen or so of the vitamins known to maintain health, a mere shadow of what's available from eating plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Instead, a daily multivitamin provides a sort of nutritional safety net.

While most people get enough vitamins to avoid the classic deficiency diseases, relatively few get enough of five key vitamins that may be important in preventing several chronic diseases. These include:

Folic acid
Vitamin B6
Vitamin B12
Vitamin D
Vitamin E

A standard, store-brand, RDA-level multivitamin can supply you with enough of these vitamins for under $40 a year. It's about the least expensive insurance you can buy.
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While multivitamins can be a valuable tool to correct dietary imbalances, it is worth exercising basic caution before taking multivitamins, especially if any medical conditions exist.

Pregnant women should generally consult their doctor before taking any multivitamins.

Severe vitamin and mineral deficiencies require medical treatment and cannot be treated with common over-the-counter multivitamins.

Special vitamin or mineral forms with much higher potency are typically available as individual components, specialized formulations, or available by prescription.

Multivitamins may be dangerous if taken in large amounts, due to the toxicity of certain components, principally iron.

In particular, other components at extrardinary levels in high potency forms include (but are not limited to) vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B6, time release niacin (especially old versions over one hour), and potassium.

Total iron content of the whole bottle is the primary concern for child safety.

There also are strict limits on the retinol content for vitamin A during pregnancies that are specifically addressed by prenatal formulas.

Additionally, various medical conditions and medications may adversely interact with multivitamins.

For normal adults taking a multivitamin for general health purposes, conventional medicine and government authorities recommend that a multivitamin should contain 100% DRI or less for each ingredient.

However, many common brand supplements in the US use 100–200% of the DRI for certain vitamins or minerals.

Higher potency versions of multivitamins, sometimes labeled as megavitamins, are available in the US.

Many brands offer low iron or iron-free versions of their multivitamins.

Answer 3

Hi.
I have been taking multivitamins for years and it has not done me any harm. I even had a blood test done recently to check for various things and everything came back as a OK. You also have to be critical about what you read. There are a lot of people out there that sincerely think they know a bunch about some subject but if one ask them a few simple questions they more often than not find themselves contradicting themselves or saying some none sense.
You should eat food from the basic food groups every day in healthy amounts.
I hope this helped.

Answer 4

You can take too much of a multi vitamin, if it is a manufactured vitamin. the body doesn't recognize manufactured vitamins (pills) very well, and most people can't break down the bonding agents used to hold the pill together, so you don't get the full benefit of it anyhow, it just passes through your system. the BEST thing to take is a liquid supplement, that is a whole food and not manufactured in a lab. there are many companies that make whole food liquid supplements with fruits and vegetables in them. You can tell if it is a whole food buy its label. It wont have percentages of the vitamins listed because it is a whole food and balanced like nature intended. feel free to e-mail me if you can't find any. I can stear you in the right direction.

Answer 5

no the vitamins will not deteriorate your health. I do not take a multiple vitamin but I take my vitamins seperate so I am taking about seven pills a day and it has helped my health,
I didn't take them through the winter and I can tell a difference.
You should take a good quality of multivitamin that will disolve properly, They say that the regular commerical brands are hard and go straight through your system without disolving,

Answer 6

FDA approved multivitamins (ones with less than or equal to 100% of the daily recommended allowance of various vitamins) are safe to eat every day. The problem vitamins are the multivitamins which give you 2 or more times the recommended dosages of vitamins - those are unsafe.

Answer 7

I don't think so. I have been doing so for over two years now and I feel sorta good =D! And you're right, I can't eat a ton of fruits and veggies everyday, INSANITY.

Answer 8

It really isn't, depending on the multivitamin you take. Just watch it a bit because some vitamins do become toxic if you get too much of them in your body.