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It was news of sorts when, last June, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finally acknowledged that taking a multivitamin every day is an inexpensive and effective way to help guard your health. BN, of course, has been recommending this for the past 63 years, so it's nice to know that JAMA has caught up with us.
Nobody at the store where you picked up BN is going to be surprised that, as JAMA wrote, "it's prudent for adults to take vitamin supplements." Nor will they be startled to learn, as JAMA further observed, that many Americans don't get all the nutrition they need from their diets and, thus, require supplements for optimum health.
About the same time as the JAMA study was published, the Council for Responsible Nutrition published a 100-page report titled The Benefits of Nutritional Supplements. It goes way beyond JAMA's overdue announcement (see "Updates," p. 22).
In this issue of BN, we report on dietary ...