Multivitamins just create 'very expensive urine', medical chief warns

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Multivitamins provide “no benefit” to most people and instead just create “very expensive urine,” the president of the Australian Medical Association has said. “Vitamin and mineral supplements can play an important role for the 52 per cent of Australian adults who do not eat the recommended intake of fruit or the 92 per cent who do not eat the recommended intake of vegetables each day,” said the Australian Self Medication Industry. For the average person living in a highly-developed country like Australia or the UK, “there is no benefit to taking multivitamins and minerals,” said Mr Gannon. That’s not what I want to do.” Former BBC breakfast host Sian Williams said she had taken vitamin tablets throughout her life, spending up to £300 a year on the supplements – but had discovered through blood tests that they were not being absorbed by her body.