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dawidw | 5 years ago

Because nowadays food is not able to provide you vitamins and minerals in the amount your body needs.

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alexmingoia|5 years ago

How so? Nowadays humans have more access to food than ever before.

Instead of taking a multivitamin you can just eat food. Food has vitamins and minerals.

dawidw|5 years ago

> Instead of taking a multivitamin you can just eat food. Food has vitamins and minerals.

No, it's not enough [1]. Long story short: to provide the needed amount vitamins and minerals you'd have to eat lot more calories than your body needs. So to achieve correct balance between calories and vitamins and minerals, you need to enrich food with supplements.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032337