Vegetables and fruits are not a regular staple for me. If I buy them, they become rotten before I have gotten around to eating them. It probably is possible to obtain all the recommended daily doses of vitamins and minerals through pills. However, you would be missing out on some important dietary constituents. Fiber is an example.
Vitamin pills don t have fiber.
Furthermore, pills do not fill your stomach. An empty stomach sends messages to the brain to urge a person to eat. A noncook, such as yourself, fills the hunger drive usually by eating sugary and fatty snacks. Those foods are on the top of the dietary pyramid - the section reserved for foods that are to be eaten only occasionally. Dr. Donohue regrets he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible.