Popping a multivitamin daily can keep disease at bay

Nearly all adult Americans have dietary deficiencies in one or more vitamins and should be taking multivitamin supplements, a new paper has asserted (JAMA 2002;287:3116-29).

Drs Robert Fletcher and Kathleen Fairfield of the Harvard Medical School's departments of public health, ambulatory medicine, and epidemiology, reached these conclusions after reviewing the literature on …