Health
Vitamin intake gives people a false sense of invulnerability, which in turn leads to risky behavior, in other words, to an unhealthy lifestyle. This conclusion was made by Taiwanese researchers after conducting one interesting experiment.
Taiwanese scientists conducted an experiment in which 82 volunteers (45 women and 37 men) took part, with an average age of 31 years. Each of the participants in the experiment was given capsules, and half of the volunteers were told that they were vitamins.
A week later, volunteers were interviewed. It turned out that volunteers who believed they were taking vitamins did less exercise and any other physical activity, and ate less healthy foods. In addition, it turned out that participants in the experiment who thought they were taking vitamins were 44 percent more likely than participants in the control group to do things that were harmful to their health: sunbathing, joining had casual sex and went to drunken parties. Volunteers who consumed “vitamins” were 61 percent more likely to prefer fast food or dry sandwiches instead of healthy meals.
Researchers have come to the conclusion that people who consume vitamin complexes have too much hope for vitamins, which, in the end, can cost them their health.
“The consumption of vitamin supplements is steadily increasing, but for some reason this does not affect people's health in any way. Vitamins make people feel invulnerable, people deceive themselves and go all bad, which can't but harm their health,” says study leader Wen-Bin Chiou (Wen-Bin Chiou).