I was first introduced to vitamin tablets in 1959 (when I was only 15) by a maternal uncle who had recently shifted to Karachi from Bombay. The name of the tablet was "Vitaminets" (manufactured in Switzerland). I remember that it used to make me very hungry. One tablet cost half a rupee (in those days, beef was Rs. 1 per kg). I went on consuming vitamins until 1989, when a homeopath told me I was wasting good money. But ten years later I again started consuming vitamin tablets and have continued doing so, despite the cost. I take a multivitamin mineral tablet, a Vitamin C 500 mg tablet and a Vitamin D capsule (2000 IU) in the morning, another vitamin D tablet (800 IU) after dinner, besides the vitamins in chocolate milk which I consume at breakfast. But then I've come across people who don't take any vitamins at all and are still enjoying good health.
One relative, a smoker, has never heard of vitamin pills, yet he's perfectly healthy (he's two years younger than I am). Another is a manager in a firm, and he too has saved a lot over all these years by not taking vitamin capsules, even though he's from a beef-eating family. So I've started to wonder if I should stop consuming vitamin pills or go on taking them.
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