Vitamin supplements: advertising or help? The Tribulations of VitaminsThe worldwide obsession with vitamin supplements has increased exponentially, and vitamins have become ingrained in the lives of individuals due to a fallacious argument promoting the ideology that vitamins are beneficial. More and more scientific research has identified the health benefits as “less spectacular than advertised” (Lemstra). Researchers at Johns Hopkins University said that “most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified, and they should be avoided.” Vitamin supplements fail to live up to expectations and are marred by risks for users. The relative ineffectiveness of vitamins is a generally undocumented case. After a decade of testing a vitamin pill to combat Alzheimer's by stimulating cognitive behavior, Harvard researchers have proclaimed the pill's ineffectiveness. This is one of the many cases that reveal the ineffective state of vitamins. Annals of Internal Medicine claims that vitamins A, E, B, and beta carotene supplements, to name a few, are ineffective...