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5. They're helpful if a person is low in something that's important.

It's not helpful to take a vitamin supplement, if you aren't lacking in it.

But it's hard for people who don't eat that many calories to get all the nutrition they need from diet alone, though that is preferred.

Once I created a complicated chart containing a list of all vitamins & minerals that were important, and I worked out how many grams or mg or whatever I needed daily for optimum health. Then I tracked my eating carefully for a while. I discovered that it was almost impossible for me to take in all those vitamins & minerals through diet alone, one reason being because I couldn't eat that many calories without getting overweight. If you're trying to be healthy, being overweight/overfat is one of the unhealthiest things you can be.

It's easier for men, since they can eat more calories.

My dr told me to take Vitamin D for a deficiency (necessary for bone health).