Growing up my mother fed my sisters and I vitamins like it was her J-O-B. She thoroughly believed in the powers of vitamins and their ability to keep us out of doctors offices and on the perfect attendance list at school. I may have embellished a little in that last sentence, however, it is true that we took minimally two pills a day with breakfast. A little red multivitamin and white vitamin-c supplement. Prior to our abilities to "swallow" our vitamins we did have chewables and I can vouch that chewable vitamin-c is absolutely puke-worthy. There was also a time when my mom thought garlic pills were the next best thing to sliced bread. All I can say is they provided for some nasty burps which made an already self-conscious preteen even more so. At any rate, upon graduating and venturing off to college I nixed the vitamin habit much like I nixed my weekly dose of church on Sunday. I guess I just needed a break from all things regimented that were either good for my body or for my soul.
