I asked a doctor one time what he thought of vitamins, and he said, "They are a waste of time if you have a good diet." I thought to myself, well DUH, if we all ate the perfect foods all the time, of course we wouldn't need vitamins....
Scary....
Scarier that I don't do either....take vitamin, or eat right!
Most American medical doctors have taken no more than 5 hours of nutrition classes in medical school if any at all, yet they are subjected to dozens and dozens of presentations by pharmaceutical company representatives on patent medications every year. So it should be no wonder why more and more people look elsewhere for advice on real nutrition.
Your doctor is flat out lying to you. Recent reports are out that say by 2020, something like 60 percent of middle-aged and aging Americans WILL suffer from osteoporosis.
Insufficient calcium.
And it's interesting to note that most animals make their own vitamin C. But the primates, for some reason, lost that ability.
No matter. Biologists that measure the amount of vitamin C in the animals that make their own yield a guesstimate of about how much a 150 pound human should have in his system.
Somewhere between 5 and 10 grams per day.