{"id":13530,"date":"2011-10-24T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=13530"},"modified":"2011-10-15T16:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T22:04:53","slug":"frugal-librarian-41-vitaminimalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-41-vitaminimalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Librarian #41: Vitaminimalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The most expensive multivitamin is the better one, because the price reflects a company with more stringent quality controls, right?\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 But the cheaper ones aren\u2019t any good either, right?\u00a0 Wrong again.\u00a0 Some of them are stellar.\u00a0 Some.<\/p>\n

It turns out there is pretty much no correlation between cost and quality, from a few cents per dose to some over fifty cents a pill.\u00a0 Some don\u2019t have the the advertised \u00a0RDA of certain vitamins.\u00a0 Some have unhealthful contaminates.\u00a0 Some are of such low quality they don\u2019t disintegrate properly, rendering them ineffective.<\/p>\n

So, just don\u2019t take vitamins then?\u00a0 Also, a bad idea.\u00a0 Read the results of this experiment <\/a><\/strong>and buy the cheapest with a passing score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most expensive multivitamin is the better one, because the price reflects a company with more stringent quality controls, right?\u00a0 Not at all.\u00a0 But the cheaper ones aren\u2019t any good either, right?\u00a0 Wrong again.\u00a0 Some of them are stellar.\u00a0 Some. It turns out there is pretty much no correlation between[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[364,1],"tags":[370,521,257,1755],"class_list":["post-13530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-news","category-reference","tag-frugal","tag-frugal-librarian","tag-health","tag-vitamins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3we","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13530"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13596,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13530\/revisions\/13596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}