As part of my “spring-cleaning-ritual” I purge my outdated vitamins/minerals, checking the expiration date, to see how much I really used them over the past year. It’s amazing to discover ...

We all know that vitamins and minerals are essential to good health -- it says so right there on the cereal box. And we live in the more-is-better era of Hummers, Big Gulps, and McMansions.

In fact, taking too much of some vitamins can cause serious problems. An excess of vitamin A , for example, can damage your liver . Although this is rarely a problem from food, supplements make ...

For more information: Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets, National Institutes of Health; Making Sense of Vitamins and Minerals, a special health report by the editors at Harvard Health Publishing in ...

Vitamin D deficiency can be traced back to our (not-so-great) diet, explains Dr. Bazilian. “We really are a nation that’s overweight but undernourished,” she says, adding that according to ...

In the United States, heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, men and people of most racial and ethnic groups, according to the CDC. In fact, cardiovascular disease causes one ...

Taking too many vitamins can increase the risk of overdose. Symptoms of a vitamin overdose include diarrhea, headache, irregular heartbeat, and nausea. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does ...