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Frequently Asked Questions

At The Positive Health Shop we recognise the importance of timely, accurate information.

Nutritional supplements may not be for everyone and the only way to find out if they will help you is to have as much information to hand to help you assess that. So we've put together some of the most common questions put to us by our customers along with answers to them. Some of them seem pretty basic, but all in all they are important in establishing the facts.

If you have a question that is not covered here, send us an email with it in and we will feature it, plus our response on this page.

Q. Who takes supplements?

Q. Why do people take vitamins?

Q. Some doctors seem concerned that people may harm themselves by overdosing on vitamins and minerals...Does that actually happen much?

Q. How are these rare toxic reactions likely to occur?

Q. If I decide to take vitamin supplements, how do I decide what kind to buy? There are so many to choose from, and often almost nothing on product labels that would help me to make a wise choice.

Q. What about nutrients known to be essential but which have no RDA? Should those be in a multi vitamin and mineral supplement, too?

Q. What if I also want to get higher-than-RDA amounts of antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E and beta-carotene?

Q. I was surprised to learn that the multivitamin and mineral supplement I was taking contained very little calcium. Is this common?

Q. I’ve seen supplements which contain nutrients you haven’t even mentioned — choline. PABA. inositol and others. Should I be lookIng for a supplement includes these nutrients?

Q. What about vitamin formulas just for men or women or for older people? Should I be selecting one of them?

Q. A friend of mine takes a whole handful of vitamin supplements every day. Why would someone do that rather than simply take a multivitamin and mineral tablet?

Q. What about prices? Is expensive better?

Q. What’s the difference between natural and synthetic vitamins?

Q. What about vitamin E? I’ve heard there is a difference between the natural and synthetic versions.

Q. Are there natural and synthetic forms of minerals also?

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