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Too Many Vitamins Can Endanger
Health
Too much of many vitamins and minerals can prove as harmful to human health as too little of them.
The body needs only so much of each nutrient, sometimes only a trace. Overdoses of certain vitamins, like A and D, can make a person seriously ill and large doses of vitamin E over a long period can produce flu-like symptoms.
Many other vitamins and minerals have to be ingested in proper balance with one another.
Many Americans believe that if one of something is good, them two or three must be better. This definitely is not the case with vitamins and minerals.
The initials “RDA” on food boxes and vitamin bottles stand for “recommended dietary allowance.” It means just what it says.
Once a person has 100 percent of what is needed and self-prescribes many times more of a nutrient, then his or her metabolism is forced to work overtime to rebalance. Some people
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