I’ve gone back and forth on taking a multivitamin since I know my diet isn’t all that great. Ideally I should be working to improve that diet but let’s say due to certain circumstances that’s a bit difficult at the moment.

Would it be worth taking a 1 a day multivitamin to at least correct some possible deficiency or is it very unlikely that it would have any effect?

Not asking for professional medical advice or anything, mostly looking to see if anyone else is taking a multivitamin and if so why?

    • astral_avocado@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      There’s new studies that disagree, they are easily oxidized fats and there’s evidence that they heavily contribute to heart disease. Saturated fats from animal sources seems to be the way to go.

      Then again if you don’t exercise and aren’t metabolically healthy you’ll probably still have issues regardless of what you do.

      • Caveman@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s the one. :)

        To add to that there seems to be a link between vegetable oil and weight gain when calories are kept equal between two groups of rodents.

      • The Giant Korean@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Can you post those studies? Pretty much all the studies I’ve seen show that unsaturated fats are what you want.

        https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29174025/

        Conclusions: Reducing saturated fat and replacing it with carbohydrate will not lower CHD events or CVD mortality although it will reduce total mortality. Replacing saturated fat with PUFA, MUFA or high-quality carbohydrate will lower CHD events.

        https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0939475317302375

        Most meta-analyses, except the Nurses Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow up Study combined, that have examined replacement of total saturated fat with total carbohydrate in cohort studies have found no effect on CHD events or deaths. Only when replacement of saturated fat with polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fat or high quality carbohydrate is examined is benefit shown.

        There is some recent evidence that some unsaturated fats are unhealthy from another perspective, like soybean oil, but that isn’t all of them (e.g. olive oil is still healthy for you).