Q: Over half of the entire population does this regularly and the chances you will do this increases dramatically between 50 and 70 years of age. What is it?
A: You take vitamins or other supplements.
About 45% of children aged 1 to 3 years and 4 to 8 years old took nutritional supplements. Supplement use then decreased to 36.8% among 9 to 13 year olds. For teenagers aged 14 to 18, 26.5% of males and 32.9% of females used supplements – the lowest prevalence among all age groups for both sexes. After entering adulthood, the percentage of people taking nutritional supplements increased with age. Nutritional supplement use was more common among Canadian adults aged 19 and over (47.3%) than among children and youth (38.5%). Women were more likely than men to take nutritional supplements, with the most notable difference among those aged 51 to 70 years, where almost two-thirds (65.1%) of women used supplements compared with 42.5% of men (Chart 1).
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