“These companies are marketing products to us based on perceptions of deficiencies."

Are vitamin supplements a waste of money?

 Could the coloured pills be doing more harm than good? 

Kashmira Gander 

The experts also didn’t mince words when it came to the supplement industry, which it said made £650million annually when they study was conducted at the expense of a public which was reacting to false anxieties about their health.

“These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough,” the experts concluded in the report.

Edgar Miller from the John Hopkins school of Medicine said at the time: “These companies are marketing products to us based on perceptions of deficiencies. They make us think our diet is unhealthy, and that they can help us make up for these deficiencies and stop chronic illnesses.”