Should We Take A Daily Multivitamin?

Ask:
I'm over 40 years old, have a close friend who often goes on business trips in the US and buy multivitamins for me and my family to take, one pill a day, one for each age group. She said that the amount of vitamins provided by the daily food is not enough of the vitamins needed for the body, so just keep drinking this for sure, health. But recently, I found that taking multivitamins can cause cancer. So please consult my doctor should help me take a daily multivitamin? (Do Thu Que - Ben Tre)
Reply:
Her question is also a question of many readers sent to the editorial office of Health & Life newspaper as well as a phone to ask me directly, so the answer to her is also to answer for those concerned about the issue of “Using How to use multivitamins is beneficial for health ”.
In the United States, people produce multivitamins containing 20 to 50 types of vitamins and minerals with different levels for men and women of all ages from children to the elderly, people with diabetes

... American scientists and many European countries have joined in, with long-term studies for decades, on hundreds of thousands of people who have proved the reverse of these "multivitamins taken on 1 tablet"
For men, "multivitamins taken on 1 tablet" increased the rate of prostate cancer by 30% compared to non-users (results of the National Cancer Institute of America research on 300,000 people).




For women, the "multivitamins taken on 1 tablet", increased breast cancer rates by 19% compared to non-users (research results of Swedish scientists studied over 35,000 women aged 49 - 83 for over 10 years).
If you have a varied diet and you are still healthy, you don't need to take a daily multivitamin
However, the above information has a duration on the mass media less than 0.1% compared to the advertisements of multivitamins manufacturers, so many people are still unclear, not really aware of the real situation. In Vietnam, the Ministry of Health has not allowed the import of this "one-day multivitamin", so only a small number of people use it (due to the purchase of “ hand-carried ”by a person going abroad or given by a relative).
Types of "multivitamins daily take 1 tablet" are allowed to circulate, there are many things like: centrivit capsules containing 12 vitamins, astymin forte capsules with 20 substances including vitamins and amino acids, soft capsule vitacap containing 11 vitamins and 7 minerals .. these are only used intermittently, according to a doctor's prescription.




Obimin alone contains 14 vitamins and mineral salts for pregnant women, which are taken regularly every day before and after delivery.
In 2000, I found the vitamin A content in the obimin tablet to 6,000UI, so I wrote a letter to United Pharma Representative (VN) Inc. is for European - American who can weigh 60 - 80kg.
Most Vietnamese women only have about 40-50kg of weight, this dose is easy to give birth to birth defects, especially in the first 3 months. Only about 1-5% of children born with deformities will be a burden for the Vietnamese family and society to take care of disabled children ”. Therefore, if the obimin product wants to exist in the Vietnamese market, it must reduce the vitamin A content to 2,500UI to a maximum of 3,000UI / tablet.
Lastly, please send the readers advice of Dr. Susanna C Larsson (Karolinska Institute - Stockholm, Sweden): "If you have a varied diet and you are still healthy, you don't need to use multivitamins daily.



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(Source: Health and life newspaper).

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