Stop Taking Your Vitamin Pills

Rather than turning you into a hyper-immune superman, your multivitamin pills could be doing more harm than good.

WERE YOU TO PEER through the windows of most 21st-Century kitchens, you’d see that no modern breakfast is complete without a fistful of pills you’d normally associate with the inmates of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. That’s because getting your five-a-day between gym sessions and late meetings is no mean feat. Packing a day’s worth of vitamins and minerals into one neat handful is the modern way to streamline your nutrition. But not all shortcuts are the best route, no matter how convenient they may seem.