Why are vitamin pills not a replacement for a balanced diet?
In: Biology
Your presumption is false. Vitamin pills are absolutely a replacement for the vitamin deficiencies that come with an unbalanced diet.
The problem is that 1) certain vitamins may be harder to absorb in pill form vs from foods and 2) an unbalanced diet has more problems than vitamin deficiencies. For example, weight gain/loss, dyslipidemia, and a whole host of diet dependent diseases.
The body is a very complex thing. Over hundreds of years, man has discovered many things about the body, but not near everything. There are things about the liver, for instance, that nobody has any clue about how it functions, let alone, the best inputs. There are certain chemicals that only come from plants, and. in natural form have huge variations. A vitamin includes within it only what the designers want to be in it. We don’t even know every chemical or variants of compounds the body needs. We do, however, know that this body evolved or was created to eat the things naturally available around us. I know it sounds like a non-answer answer, however, the first step in science is knowing you don’t know.. the second step is observing. We’re not anywhere near discovering what all is needed in the human body to function optimally, but science has already told us that natural selection designed a body to work best with the things already in our environment and available to us.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/survive-without-eating-382-days/
>In 1965 a ‘grossly obese’ man survived without eating for 1 year and 17 days. He lived entirely off his copious body fat and vitamins, and ended up losing 125kg [276 lb] of weight with no adverse effects.
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