http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/03/19/forty-percent-americans-take-vitamins.aspxAbout 40% of Americans popped a vitamin or mineral within the past month. The most common vitamins taken include vitamin C, B12, B6, niacin, thiamin, B2, E, A, D and folic acid. In order to determine how common vitamin and mineral supplementation is inenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/03/19/forty-percent-americans-take-vitamins.aspx#220162Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:16:11 GMT24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:220162elabla<p>yeah interesting fact - i have many greek, perisan and asian friends and they all say in their countries people generally or never (almost) never take multivitamins or any kind for that matter - and they eat much more fresh, natural foods - and live much longer! &nbsp;also, they tend not to eat cereal &nbsp;which is big in this country - their breakfast consists of maybe eggs, but mostly fresh bread with feta cheese. &nbsp;not sure about asian breakfasts though. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <img src="http://articles.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=220162" width="1" height="1">