If i eat nothing but multivitamins will i still be heathly ?

Question

This isnt my plan, im just curious about the theory...

what about if i add protein shakes to that ?

Answer 1

Not at all.

Vitamins are important, yes, to ensure proper health and development. But your body needs other things as well in order to have a balanced diet. Things like proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, water and roughage.. All these are needed for the proper functioning of your body.

I'm afraid these are things that you can only get when you eat properly and only by taking in these nutrients will you be physically healthy (:

Answer 2

Definitely not. Multivitamins and protein shakes are not enough. You would last quite a while actually on that mix because you are getting fats, protein and carbohydrates. Your health would very quickly deteriorate and you would feel more and more unwell with the progression of time. You would get very ill after some time and eventually you would die a long time before the normal life span.

Answer 3

No, vitamins do not provide any energy for your body. Your body needs protein, fat, or carbohydrates for energy, and you will not be getting those with a multivitamin. Also many of the vitamins and minerals need proteins or fats present in order for you body to be able to use them. This is why the multivitamin's instructions recommend taking them with a meal.

Answer 4

No, as you need carbohydrates, fats, proteins, fibre, minerals, water... Vitamins are just an 'extra' compared to the rest. (Although they are essential)

If you had protein shakes too, this may contain everything you need, although probably not enough carbs. And you need to eat lots of different foods to ensure the widest range of nutrients.

As a guide, you can be sure you're eating a wide range if your plate has lots of different colours on it, e.g. green broccoli, red tomatoes, orange carrots, white meat... (Although I'm not talking about brown chocolate, orange doritos, pink candy etc.!)

So in short no, you wouldn't be healthy, or even alive, if you only ate multivitamins.

Hope that answered your question!

Answer 5

No, you will starve to death. Vitamins don't have protein, and contrary to popular opinion the body does need certain fats of which vitamins have none

The synergy of vitamins is also different than whole foods which your body needs so it can follow the natural order and process of breaking down the nutrients itself in order to stay healthy

Answer 6

No. having too many vitamins and minerals can cause damaging effects to your body. Plus you won't be getting your daily intake of everything else your body needs to keep your organs living and running.

Answer 7

No, because they don't contain everything you need from food, and they're just supplements, not actual food. and unless you plan to starve, and or OD on normal vitamins...or get weird side effects from too much of one thing....I wouldn't recommend it...

you won't be healthy, you'll be starved....and still lack certain vitamins that you need to survive, that you get from food.

Answer 8

No. You need calories and a well-balanced diet. Multi-vitamins are meant to be a supplement, not an "instead of."

Answer 9

.No. Your body needs roughage, to keep your colon healthy.
You need minerals and enzymes that can only be gained from a balanced diet, and some enzymes can only come from meat, others from vegetables and fruit.

Answer 10

no your body needs vitamins, minerals lipids(fats), sugars and hundreds of other things that you get from food to be healthy and function properly