Vitamins...why?

Vitamins...they really are important.

A study, published in the Western Journal of Medicine 1997, showed a correlation between vitamin intake, prevention, and health care costs. The research team studied the effect of vitamin intake on the relative risk estimates for birth defects, premature birth, and coronary heart disease, to estimate potential annual cost reductions in U.S. hospitalization charges. Amazingly, nearly $20 billion in hospital charges were potentially avoidable with daily use of folic acid and zinc-containing multivitamins by all women of childbearing age and daily vitamin E supplementation by those over age fifty. A good multivitamin gives you reassurance that you are obtaining the proper amounts of vitamins and minerals needed for good health.