Signed, Health Enthusiast Dear Health Enthusiast, Any person who eats a balanced and reasonably varied diet would normally not need vitamin supplements. The role of vitamins in our system is to help promote and regulate various chemical processes.
Deficiency diseases arise when our bodies are deprived of a vitamin for a prolonged time.
Supplemental vitamins, like those you buy in a store, would be useful in this case. Here's a conservative look at some myths and facts about vitamins, mostly designed to keep people from falling prey to false advertisements. They provide no extra pep or vitality beyond normal expectations, nor do they provide unusual levels of well-being. People believe that some individuals need very high intakes of vitamins to be healthy. A common myth is that vitamin supplements are necessary because our soil is so depleted these days.