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01 DO VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS WORK? Nearly half of UK adults take multivitamins or dietary supplements once a week. It’s easy to see why, because swallowing a promise of a healthier life is much easier, and arguably cheaper, than cooking a rounded, nutritious meal. Hundreds of journals corroborate the use of vitamin supplements… or do they? Where is the evidence that they actually work? Digging deeper A recent study in the journal Nutrition, Obesity and Exercise found that taking a daily multivitamin doesn’t help you to live longer. The US researchers analysed health records from nearly 400,000 adults with no major long-term diseases to ascertain whether a daily multivitamin reduced their risk of death over a 20-year period from the first study in the late 1990s. It didn’t. Worryingly, the research…

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Cycling Plus (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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