5 Minute Freewrite: Friday - Prompt: vitamins

Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K… so many vitamins so little time!

As a child I was always told to get plenty so sun so you could get your vitamin C. I always wondered what about those people who don't get much sun? How do they get their vitamin C? We can't exactly collect the vitamin C from the sun and keep it for a rainy day….

And as for the other vitamins they often come from fruits and vegetables. But what happens if you don't eat fruit and vegetables, then where do you get these vitamins? I never much trusted the naturopath as a child - it always seemed a bit like witchery to me and they were often vague about what you were getting.

SO now we have a dilemma of someone who lives in a place with not alot of sun (say Antarctica) who doesn't eat fruit and vegetables. I propose that we need to get scientists to create artificial vitamins but the key is that they should be marketed and sold by one of the large drug companies (everybody trusts drug companies right???!). This way we could go to our doctor for a vitamin prescription rather than having to rely on the naturopaths