Vitamin Supplements: Hype or Help?The Tribulations of VitaminsThe global obsession with vitamin supplements has grown exponentially and vitamins have become entrenched in people's lives due to a fallacious claim promoting the ideology that vitamins are beneficial. More and more scientific research is identifying health benefits that are “less spectacular than advertised” (Lemstra). Researchers at Johns Hopkins University were quoted as saying, "Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified, and they should be avoided." Vitamin supplements don't live up to the "hype" and carry risks for users. The relative ineffectiveness of vitamins is generally a poorly documented case. After a decade of testing a vitamin pill to fight Alzheimer's disease by boosting cognitive behavior, Harvard researchers proclaimed the pill ineffective. This is one of many cases revealing the ineffectiveness of vitamins. Annals of Internal Medicine insists that vitamin A, E, B, and beta-carotene supplements, to name a few, are ineffective....