Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection

Vitamania is the startling story of America's devotion to vitamins-and how it keeps us from good health.

Health-conscious Americans seek out vitamins any way they can, whether in a morning glass of orange juice, a piece of vitamin-enriched bread, or a daily multivitamin. We believe that vitamins are always beneficial and that the more we can get, the better-yet despite this familiarity, few of us could explain what vitamins actually are. Instead, we outsource our questions to experts and int...