Hi, this is Dr. Mercola, and if you've been following my site for a while, you'll know that I'm a strong proponent of getting the bulk of your nutrition from high quality, unprocessed, locally grown organic foods. Now of course this isn't always

possible especially for our kids because frequently our kids are exposed to many

cultural pressures that causes them to eat many junk foods and

sodas and juices and in addition to that they're picky so many parents decide

that it's best in their best children's best interest to have them consume a multi

and that's the purpose of this video is to give you some cautions some specific

guidelines that you're going to want to have when you're selecting a multi

for your child. So one of So there's a number of things you need to be aware.

One of them is that make sure that it has no artificial dyes or coloring agents,

things like yellow dye or red or blue dye, you want to keep them out of the

product. And then of course they're going to have to have some type of sweetener. You want to make sure

that's a safe sweetener because many of these vitamins, these children multis, they have artificial

sweeteners.

I wrote a whole book on that called Sweet Deceptions.

And if you're still not convinced of the importance of avoiding artificial sweeteners, just go to my site and type in Splenda or Nutri-suite or Equal.

You'll find out lots of information that should hopefully convince you

of you have already that you do not want to have these in your diet

in any way, shape, or form.

Additionally, there is an issue that many people are not aware of, and that's called the flow agent

that's used with the raw materials that a manufacturer used to actually to manufacture the tablet.

And a real common one is called magnesium stearate.

And you would think that would be a form of supplemental magnesium, but it's not.

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