Dump your vitamin and mineral supplements? We say no. We’re still taking ours, despite some new studies bashing multivitamin benefits. We’re also ignoring headlines like “Multivitamins a Waste of Money” and “Your Multivitamins aren’t Doing a D**n Thing” — and we think you should, too.

We’re convinced that some vitamin supplements have plenty of health-protecting benefits — especially if you’re over 50, eat a less-than-perfect diet, are a woman of reproductive age or are among the tens of millions of Americans who take nutrient-zapping drugs for high blood pressure, diabetes or to tame stomach acid. That’s a lot of folks. So why the opposition to multivitamins?

One metastudy conducted for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force looked at 27 supplement studies involving more than 400,000 people. It found no benefit for longevity, cancer prevention or heart health in people without nutrient deficiencies.

The second followed 5,947 guys for 12 years and found that multivitamins didn’t sharpen thinking or memory in men who ate healthy diets.

The third tracked more than 1,700 heart-attack survivors and, again, found no heart-health benefits for those who took a multivitamin, but plenty of people dropped out of that study. All three studies appeared in the same issue of the […]