Nutrition/vitamin experts- Can taking a multivitamin eliminate the need

meredith

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to eat foods with vitamins/minerals? If your health depends on the food you eat, and the healthiness of food depends on the nutrients it gives you, can taking a multivitamin with the same nutrients eliminate the need to eat some nutrient-rich food (or are these in fact the same nutrients? .."nutrients" because I don't know what else to call them)? If so, why doesn't everyone take a multivitamin?

I always hear how something is so healthy because it's full of protein or full of beta-carotene or full of whatever.. but I can find these things on the label of a multivitamin or at least as a supplement.
What are the benefits of actually eating the nutrient-rich food rather than taking a vitamin? If you do eat the food, should you still take a multivitamin? What kind of people should take multivitamins?

If you answer all these questions, I will love you forever.
 
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