Review: Short glimpses of usefulness, but not overall useful...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2012
After reading Martin Gover'sThe Best Multivitamin eBook- what that means, what to look for, and a whole lot more (Best Health Secrets Guide), I was interested in learning more about the mysterious and overly price-inflated world of vitamins and supplements. I am a former user of protein supplements to bulk up, but never got around to using a multivitamin (except when I was forced to when I was little). This book caught my eye because I wanted to see if it could further increase my knowledge of which multivitamin I should use(if any) and which ones were just candy-coated placebos. Gover's book did a good job of providing a nice guideline to check with multivitamins, but I never base on my decisions on one book.Reading this book, I came across some interesting facts (like the fact that vitamins weren't available before 1930 or that a deficiency in B7 can lead to dermatitis), but I didn't really find anything on how to use that knowledge besides a list of food sources and a few (good, but brief) sentences. The main question and the intent of my research was to get a definite "yes" or "no" on the multi-vitamin question. I did not receive any sort of answer on that until the end of the book, which was sort of mixed. I would have put this in the beginning of the book. Earlier content in the book seems to suggest that I do need to take a multivitamin because the modern diet lacks quality nutrition. On the other hand, the book claims to watch out dubious claims without helping me to determine which claims are dubious. In other words, I was told to pick a good multi-vitamin, but was not given information on how to identify a good multivitamin.The book is good if you want a summary of vitamins, supplements, and the like, but not good for identifying which series of vitamins and supplements are good for your particular diet.