Vitamins

When I arrived in the United States, I immediately wanted to know whether there was a drugstore near where we lived. I got lucky because we had one very close, just a two-minute walk, so I decided to browse around the store with my husband and I started to pick up some vitamins that I like, but my husband wanted to talk about it before I made a purchase and he said, “You don't need vitamins, the food you're eating every day will give you all the nutrients you need.” Then I explained to him, with a very soft and gentle voice, that I used to take them before I met you and I love it. So we reached a compromise, even though he didn’t believe I should take them. Most of his life he didn’t take vitamins, so I understood how he felt.

Then the funny thing is that a few months later he was listening to the radio and he heard some doctor talking about antioxidants and how good they are and how they’re very helpful to the body, and he bought the book The Antioxidant Miracle by Lester Packer, and he read it cover to cover and it became his bible, and before you know it he’s smiling and apologizing and saying I was right. But before he made his decision he did a lot of research to find out all about antioxidants and Vitamin E, and his research convinced him to change his mind in a radical way, so that now he takes lots more vitamins than I do daily. In fact, he’s become such a big fan of vitamins and supplements, he takes about 65 pills a day.