One person interviewed on this show takes 56 supplements per day - vitamin and mineral supplements, energy and immune boosters, stress tabs, and many more. The typical client in my private practice.
Supplement use is more common among persons who believe diet affects disease.
A quarter of the population that eats the fewest fruits and vegetables have double the cancer rate for most types of cancer when compared to the quarter with the highest intake. This should be the wake-up call. Yet when I give talks, I ask the audience how many people take supplements, most of the hands proudly go up. When I ask how many people eat five fruits and vegetables a day, half of the hands go up. Knowledge is not put into action.