Multivitamin

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Multivitamin

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Multivitamin is a wide term used to describe a supplement that contains vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other specialty ingredients.

Balanced Diet

Taking multivitamins can be beneficial to health for people who don’t get the proper nutrients from a balanced diet. Many people find it difficult to eat a balanced and healthy diet, and multivitamins can help fill the nutritional gaps.

For more information about multivitamins, see this set of reference articles.

https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Mvms-HealthProfessional/

https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-13-72

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/152/2/149.full

Many Americans do not eat enough fruits and vegetables. The USDA recommends three to five daily servings of vegetables, and two to four servings of fruit. In fact, the 2015 – 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans propose half of your plate at any given meal should be fruits and veggies. If you are not eating fruits and vegetables, there is a chance you may be deficient in certain vitamins and minerals, which can be corrected by supplementing with vitamins or a multivitamin.

References

  1. Multivitamin/mineral Supplements - Fact sheet for health professionals

    Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health, 2015

  2. Addressing nutritional gaps with multivitamin and mineral supplements

    Elizabeth Ward, Nutrition Journal, 2014

  3. Multivitamin Use and Mortality in a Large Prospective Study

    Watkins ML, Erickson JD, Thun MJ, Mulinare J & Heath Jr. CW. , American Journal of Epidemiology, 1999

  4. Let the Pyramid guide your food choices

    Health.gov, Health.gov, 2016

  5. 2015 – 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 8th Edition.

    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2015 – 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 8th Edition., 2015

  6. Health Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables

    Slavin JL & Lloyd B, Advances in Nutrition, 2012