The ‘r’ is in the month, should you take extra vitamins? ‘Only when there are health complaints is there a shortage’
Now that the ‘r’ is back in the month, we are flocking to vitamins and nutritional supplements. Last year, the Dutch bought 1.6 billion euros worth of supplements. Necessity or nonsense? “More people than for whom it is recommended take a supplement. Unfortunately, it is also the case the other way around: not everyone for whom it is recommended uses a supplement.”