In this page-turning investigation of the history, science and future of nutrition, she reveals just how much we still don’t know about vitamins – the way they work in our bodies and the amounts we really need. Decades of over-hyped advertising later and we’ve accepted as fact the idea that dietary chemicals can be used as shortcuts to improving our health.Īward-winning journalist Catherine Price goes in search of the truth about vitamins, taking us to vitamin manufacturers, food laboratories and military testing kitchens. But before long word of these ‘miracles’ had spread from the laboratory and into the hands of food marketers. Terrifying diseases such as scurvy, which had claimed the lives of millions, became preventable and curable. (Mar.The discovery of vitamins changed our world dramatically. Agent: Jay Mandel, William Morris Endeavor. then we should stop taking pills and just eat food." Price's survey of the history of vitamin discovery%E2%80%94prompted by deadly deficiencies in vitamins C, D, and A%E2%80%94unveils troubling societal consequences: We've become %E2%80%9Cobsessed" with the idea of the vitamin, %E2%80%9Cone of the most brilliant marketing terms of all time." With the introduction of the first multivitamin in the mid-1930s, %E2%80%9Cprotection in a pill" has become the goal fueling a supplement industry that has escaped stringent regulation: %E2%80%9Cmany supplement ingredients that are allowed to be sold in the United States have been definitively proven to have both short- and long-term health risks." Price raises important questions about both supplements and vitamins, and if our government isn't asking them, at the very least, consumers must. %E2%80%9Cespected health organizations," she writes, %E2%80%9Cdo not recommend that healthy people with no nutritional deficiencies take multivitamin supplements." Instead, the best advice is the simplest: %E2%80%9Cif the healthiest doses of vitamins and other micronutrients appear to be those found in food. This lively investigational work from journalist Price reveals how little we know about vitamins%E2%80%94both how much we need or how they work%E2%80%94and how our vitamin obsession is actually making us less healthy.
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