Multivitamins Argument Essay

The school health club is thinking if they should ask people to take multivitamins for their health, the problem is that the health club doesn't know if multi vitamins will help or not. I'm here so I can persuade the health club to saying yes to multivitamins.
One piece of evidence I have comes from a document called, "Understanding the Value of Multivitamin." In this document the author, Komaroff, A.L, says, "... For example, a deficiency of Vitamin C causes scurvy." In this line Komaroff is stating how Vitamin C can cause scurvy, which is a disease that makes us lose our teeth and so much more. In the same document they then stated, "... Such severe vitamin Deficiency are rarely seen in the developed countries. However, eating foods rich in vitamins still brings benefits… " So even if you wouldn't take multivitamins to get rid of vitamin deficiency diseases you can still take it to rid of other major killers. These major

killers i'm talking about are things like cancers and heart diseases. These major killers are said to be prevented by vitamins in the food but what happens if you can't eat the foods that provide these vitamins? The chances of these diseases catching up to you is coming even closer than ever. There are even more cases where eating a multivitamin might be useful like stopping birth defects if you are pregnant or protection for your bones if you are a adult.
In addition to all the evidence from the first document I will now like to add evidence from the second document. The title of the second document is called, "It Could be Old Age, or It Could Be Low B12," and was made by the reporter Brody, J and in this document they are talking about a story mother that was helped using vitamins. In this story Ilsa Katz, the mother, started to lose her memories at the age of 85. "She couldn't remember names, where she'd been or what she'd done that day," Vivian Atkins, the daughter, said. At the time they thought it was a disease that comes with old age. So, obviously they gave her medicine but it only made matters worse. Though in the doc. it said, "... the clinic also tested Ms. Katz's blood level of B12. It was well below normal…" You may now be asking what B12 is, well B12 is a vitamin that is needed in a healthy nervous system. So, back to the story Ms.Katz had a low amount and once they added B12 supplements she went back on track. Now, the reason why I'm telling this story is that having a multivitamin might've been able to save them from the start. You see when taking a multivitamin you might not be having a lot of the vitamin that you need but you are still getting a constant stream of the vitamins you do need.
Now the last piece of evidence is from the doc.

"Discard the Vitamins and Eat More Fruit and Vegetables," which was made by Morley. Although, this doc. was biased to one side I was still able to find evidence for my side on this. Now in this doc. they talked about how they were researching people as said in this quote, "A recent study followed women from Iowa who were between 55 to 69 for 22 years." In this quote they said they followed women from 55-69 for 22 years that took vitamins but, the thing is that they watched them for 22 years they will start dieing due to other circumstances other than multivitamin. They also say that in this doc. we should be eating foods instead of vitamins as said from, "These studies suggest we waste a large amount of money on vitamins and other supplements…" But, my question to that is what about people who have allergies they need to get vitamins somewhere and if they can't get them from the foods they should get it from vitamins or, even better, multivitamins which can help on multiple levels of

vitamin.
So, all in all I believe that we should take multivitamins these are the reasons why.