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How Lobbyists Will Keep You Hooked on Vitamins

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No matter how many studies show you’re wasting money and possibly harming your health, dietary supplement makers are selling their own version of science—and reality.

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This week, the Annals of Internal Medicine—one of the world’s leading medical journals—published three studies evaluating the benefits of vitamins and dietary supplements.

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The first study determined whether healthy people who

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