if you work and live outside, and breath only fresh and unpolluted air, and drink only pure clean water, and are free of chronic stressors and exposure to environmental toxins. then of course you don't need vitamins. [laughter] but that describes absolutely nobody on the planet. so, therefore in reality, we all need vitamins, and you need all of them everyday, like food and water. a government survey found that 92% of americans are deficient in one or more of the basic nutrients at the minimum level we need, not for optimal health, but the minimum level we need to prevent deficiency diseases, like scurvy and rickets. we are seeing nutritional deficiencies in this country that we have not seen in 100 years. we see overweight kids who have scurvy from vitamin c deficiency, and have bleeding gums like the sailors from 100 years ago. we see the bones bend because of vitamin d deficiency in little kids who have rickets, which we haven't seen since the early days of the industrial revolution. and the treatment cost pennies a day. it's cheaper than being sick. the latest research shows that th