Why You Need to Take a Multivitamin

 Why You Need to Take a Multivitamin

by Barbara Minton
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• Birth defects could be reduced by 70% if potential mothers used multivitamins with folic acid.
  
  
• Routine use of multivitamins with minerals by the elderly could improve immune function and reduce infectious disease.
• Calcium and Vitamin D could reduce the rate of hip fractures among the elderly by 20%.

A prevention oriented approach to health and diet is very cost effective. If the occurrence of cardiovascular disease, stroke and hip fracture was delayed by five years, U.S. health care cost savings would equal $89 billion annually.  Read More.