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Vitamin supplements are big business, but do they do us any good?
Pill-poppers and sceptics both use science to back themselves up, but the jury鈥檚
been out ever since the word 鈥渧itamin鈥� was invented. There鈥檚 plenty of food for
thought in Rima D. Apple鈥檚 fascinating history鈥擵itamania: Vitamins in
American Culture (Rutgers University Press, $18.95, ISBN 0 8135 2278
1).