Vitamins

3 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. Do multivitamins actually make healthy people healthier?For decades, we have swallowed colorful tablets to prevent disease and extend life. Yet, massive clinical analyses of hundreds of thousands of participants suggest that for the av…
2. Why soldiers eat differently: the science of military nutritionStandard dietary guidelines are designed for the average person, but a soldier's body faces extreme physiological demands. From intense physical activity to harsh environments, mi…
3. A deadly Southern epidemic was blamed on germs. The real cause was diet.In the early 1900s pellagra, a disease of rashes, diarrhoea and dementia, swept the American South and affected some 3 million people. Most experts suspected a germ or toxic corn.…

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