So what makes it so much better to get your nutrients through foods rather than supplements? I understand you need to eat, but say all you’ve got is potatoes and multivitamins, is that very much less effective than eating a balanced diet? Or is it just “ideal” to get them through foods but you’ll still be ok?
Like if that’s all you had for a month, would your health really suffer negatively?
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Not a direct answer to your question.
It isn’t “important” in a sense. It is wasteful and expensive. A reasonably balanced diet for a healthy average individual will provide all the nutrients and vitamins needed. Unless someone has a health impairment or engaged in some extreme athletics, the need for supplements is mostly driven by marketing.
It is more likely that these overly faddish attachment to supplements are not a healthy mental state. And these things become “modern mythologies” and perpetuate bad habits and even worse advice on general nutrition. There is no reason to encourage this.
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