Vitamins and supplements get spotty coverage, as very few outlets are knowledgeable on the topic. So finding hard facts and in-the-know reporters is crucial.
The health-supplement, mineral, and vitamin industry has grown far faster than the media's coverage of it. From the 1980s, when it was dominated by Birkenstock-wearing health-food-store owners, vitamins and supplements have grown into a multibillion-dollar business, triggering a flood of new companies, all with products claiming to make you faster, stronger, or smarter.
Sorting through all these claims ...