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PostSubject: Why our obsession with vitamins could be harming our health   Why our obsession with vitamins could be harming our health Icon_minitimeSat Apr 04, 2015 12:03 am
In this edited extract from her new book, health journalist Catherine Price dissects our obsession with vitamins and why our faith in them – combined with the philosophy towards nutrition that they have enabled – is doing us harm.

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Discovered barely a century ago, vitamins were a revolutionary breakthrough in nutritional science, providing cures and preventions for some of the world's most terrifying diseases. But it wasn't long before vitamins spread from the labs of scientists to the offices of food marketers, and began to take on a life of their own.

By the end of World War II, vitamins were available in forms never before seen in nature – vitamin-fortified peanut butter, vitamin gum, even vitamin doughnuts – and, far from expressing skepticism over these products, the public clamoured for more. The era of "vitamania," as one 1940s journalist called it, had begun.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/why-our-obsession-with-vitamins-could-be-harming-our-health-20150403-1mbryw.html
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