Another thing with vitamin tablets, keeping in mind recommendations by all of the above mention docs etc, is our diet. Stevesmi and I (and others) are only too familiar with the actual diets many people have vs what they say and think they do. When your morning wheeties etc have 'added vitamins' it's not cos they are somehow doing you a special favour. It's cos many foods are so fkin over processed as to be nutritionally lacking. Here in the UK we're just a year or two behind the US in our piss poor eating habits. Ready meals laden with salt, MSG and far too much Glucose Syrup to mask poor quality / low grade ingredients (for shelf life and profit margins) vs buying actual ingredients yourself and actually making scratch cooked food.
All experts and our mods too (experts in our own way) want you to cook scratch made meals. But how many of you do? How many, as per a HUGE number of US (and now UK too) eat out, or eat take outs/takeaways or ready meals? That's why we take the pennies per day vitamin products. Not only are many of us here smashing the fuck in the gyms but a good number are also working damned hard in physical jobs too (esp those out of door working members sweating away on hot climates).
I'll keep using my 3D-Multi and I won't be worrying about my body setting aside f'all and kidney stones.
Here endeth the lesson