"There are few vitamin deficiencies in the general population, apart from vitamin D
," says Mathilde Touvier, Inserm research director in epidemiology and nutrition.
There are certain deficits in targeted populations, for which we must be more attentive and possibly supplement with caution. ”
In the 1990s, concerns about the vitamin status of the French led to an assessment of the value of systematic supplementation.
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Controversial results had finally led to opting instead for nutritional recommendations, which have been shown to be effective for most vitamins and for most French people.
However, these recommendations have evolved a lot over the past thirty years, both because knowledge is improving on vitamins, the thresholds to be reached and how to measure them, but also because the evolution of cultural and dietary habits is modifying nutritional intake.
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