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vitamines make people obese??


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ive talked to my doc and she told me that i have to take some vitamines.but recently i heard that vitamines make poeple gain some weight, is that right?? i really wonder ... and that vitamines make you want to eat! gosh... do you have any answers on my question???
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I seriously doubt it, unless the person is malnourished due to poor absorption of vitamins or severe deficiency, and the vitamin corrects it. Even then, they're not appetite stimulants, but if someone is sick from not getting enough of a vitamin or mineral, a supplement might help correct that.
so i can drink them every morniing and not to worry that someday ill recognize that ive gained some kilos, yeah? i think you're right somehow! doc told me that those vitamins were really important for me and that i had to drink them if i wanted to live adn stay healthy! donno whether its right, but if not so then she wouldnt have told me that!
i am so tangeled!:(((
Vitamins don't make you gain weight, unless you always wash them down with three milkshakes.
I've never heard that one before! No, vitamins don't make you gain weight. That's silly. Whoever told you that is really misinformed. 
I started taking vitamins when I started my weight loss journey.  I've lost 46 lbs.  Vitamins certainly didn't make me obese, or keep me from losing weight.  Honestly, fatty junky food and no exercise makes one obese, not vitamins!
yeah, that sounds really silly, but one girl told me that!!! i donno..so from tomorrow ill have to take them, wash down with water...

Just a note.  When people say 'X makes you obese'

You always need to check how they arrived at the DIRECTION of the correlation. 

Take for example the recent silliness about diet soft drinks.  One study found that people who consumed diet soft drinks were more likely to be obese than those who didn't or those who drank non-diet drinks.

This means that if you picked a diet soft-drink users RANDOMLY you would be more likely to find an obese person than if you selected from the rest of the population.   However this doesn't necessarily mean that diet soft-drinks CAUSE obesity.

This information could mean as little as: "Diet soft drink users are more likely to have bad diets".  As you could argue that the non-obese people can either deny themselves soda or drink in moderation.  Therefore the diet soft-drink users would have a disproportionate number of people who can't control their caloric intake well.

 Anyway the point is, causation can be a difficult think to prove.  So it pays to be skeptical when people talk about it so simply. :)

Or it could mean that obese people are more likely to drink diet soft drinks?

Back to the original topic - you seem to be saying that your doctor is advising you to drink something, and not just take vitamin tablets?  I'm not sure what you're saying here.

no just my doc told me to take vitamins...cuz i really need them! thats it...
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