{"id":4825,"date":"2011-05-01T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T04:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2011-05-01T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T04:05:42","slug":"a-multi-is-a-supplement-not-a-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/a-multi-is-a-supplement-not-a-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Multi is a Supplement&#8230; Not a Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/04\/110421151923.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science Daily reports on an interesting study&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two different experiments were conducted&#8230;Participants in Group A were instructed to take a multivitamin and participants in the control group were assigned to take a placebo. However, all the participants actually took placebo pills. The results from the experiments and survey demonstrated that participants who believed they had taken dietary supplements felt invulnerable to health hazards, thus leading them to engage in health-risk behaviors. Specifically, participants in the perceived supplement use group expressed less desire to engage in exercise and more desire to engage in hedonic activities, preferred a buffet over an organic meal (Experiment 1), and walked less to benefit their health (Experiment 2) than the control group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to scrounge up a copy of the study yet, so I can&#8217;t say how strong the effect was.\u00a0 But it parallels conversations I&#8217;ve had before with a few folks, who seemed to think that taking a multi meant they could skip eating vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>Nuh-uh.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a multi can certainly help compensate for day-to-day shortfalls in certain nutrients&#8230; even a generally\u00a0healthy diet doesn&#8217;t always cover all the daily bases. But it&#8217;s not &#8220;written permission&#8221; to eat junk, or to avoid certain food groups. &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Daily reports on an interesting study&#8230; Two different experiments were conducted&#8230;Participants in Group A were instructed to take a multivitamin and participants in the control group were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,23,28],"tags":[1136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}