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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-a-follow-up-to-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">Dr. Mirkin: A Follow-up to: Eat Real Foods Instead of Popping Pills</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 3, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Alexandra M. Haller</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Dear Dr. Mirkin: Would you please explain how vitamin pills could affect lifespan, as you reported in last week’s issue? The issue of vitamin supplements is far from settled. Most doctors take multivitamins themselves and recommend them to their patients.&nbsp; However, I continue to believe that it is better to get vitamins in whole foods than in pills. Most vitamins are parts of enzymes that start chemical reactions in your body.&nbsp; Each chemical reaction produces end products that are changed by further chemical reactions from other vitamins to other products that benefit your body.&nbsp; When you take a vitamin that has been isolated from the hundreds of other substances found in foods, that enzyme causes a chemical reaction that accumulates a disproportionate amount of its end products.&nbsp; If the substance that acts as an…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-a-follow-up-to-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-a-follow-up-to-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-a-follow-up-to-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-a-follow-up-to-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/diet-myths/">diet-myths</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a><br /><br /> </P>