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Seniors may benefit from ‘nutritional insurance’ provided by daily multivitamin dose
Sunday 1 December 2019, 01:00 AM
Fresh produce price hikes, badly fitting dentures and reduced appetite can all contribute to older adults missing out on essential nutrients. Complementary medicines expert Shaun Holt suggests what nutrients our older folk may consider adding back in, by way of a daily multivitamin
Try as we might, it can be hard to get all the nutrients we need, including vitamins, from our diets.
Contributing to the problem is that even if a
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- American Geriatrics Society Workgroup on Vitamin D Supplementation for Older Adults. Recommendations abstracted from the American Geriatrics Society Consensus Statement on vitamin D for prevention of falls and their consequences. J Am Geriatr Soc 2014;62(1):147–52.
- Andrès E, Loukili NH, Noel E, et al. Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency in elderly patients. CMAJ 2004;171(3):251–59.
- Huang T, Chen Y, Yang B, et al. Meta-analysis of B vitamin supplementation on plasma homocysteine, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Clin Nutr 2012;31(4):448–54.
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