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This article gathered my attention because I am used to eating multivitamins sometimes, without problems, and I have been told that they help prevent mild-sicknesses, cancer and heart diseases. I found this piece of writing very insightful because it stated that these pills actually increase your risk of heart failure and prostate cancer. Apparently for more than half of Americans – 68% of adults over age 65 – has a multivitamin as a part of a daily ritual. These multivitamins actually overload your body with 10 – 20 times the recommended daily allowance. This article is a great demonstration towards the human condition. It represents how people are just taking whatever sounds right rather than what they know is right. A large part of the problem is how willing people will still take the pills without even knowing what is in them. It is even required to have “not evaluated by the FDA” on the container but typically this is is small print which people will glance over. Instead people will look at the unproven health claims written in bold and bright letters. The author and researchers involved recommend eating more natural food rather than these multivitamins because it is proved to be more healthy and have more benefits than the pills. These few statements have personally changed by thoughts on multivitamins and I will make sure to eat more healthy food instead of pills, and also to look further into what I am digesting.