Today Google is celebrating Casimir Funk's 140th birthday. What's interesting about this is that Funk is a white man. He was "was among the first to discover and introduce the concept of vitamins and essential nutrients needed for human health."
Funk was Polish, so some would say he's not white-white, but I think most people consider Poles, Slavs, Irish, Italians, etc., white these days. When was the last time Google featured a white dude?
I am 100% sure this is to try to cover for the AI fiasco and the coverage it got. These companies really think we have the memory of a goldfish. They are half right, but seeing this, that Army recruitment ad, Budlight's recent marketing, it's almost more insulting than the nonsense that was pushed to begin with.
Vitamins are legit, but the ultimate motivation behind them was to get away with chemical agriculture.
They no longer had to let chickens eat real, natural grubs and seeds. Now they can feed them the cheapest grain and just make up the difference with the chemical micro-nutrients sprayed onto it.
Fast forward to today and factory farms feed cows, pigs, chickens, etc actual nutritional trash and figured out, along with antibiotics, the bare minimum needed to have them not die en masse but still get them nice and fat for the big bucks.
There are also human consequences. Your body can detect nutrient deficiencies and instill cravings for the foods that it has learned will fulfill those needs. If you find yourself craving citrus, for example, your body is telling you it wants Vitamin C (oversimplification, but just an example). Sounds good, right? Except "enriched flour", basically nutrient deficient white flour gets sprayed with all these micro-nutrients then gets used for junk food. So when stupid parents give their kids Sugar Bombs for breakfast, made with enriched flour, the body learns that some nutrient needs can be satisfied for it.
So, instead of craving fruits, vegetables, and wholesome foods, that chemical spray food now also hits the spot. Iodine in salt encourages cravings for salty snacks instead of natural seafood. Even our produce today is less nutritious than it used to be, and the biological deficiencies are conveniently covered up by squirting supplemental nutrients into prepared and convenience foods.
Sure, a bunch of acquired diseases from bad or non-varied diets are cured, but the cost is a shift away from actually nutritious food. Good intentions maybe but definitely exploited for profit. The biggest punchline is that science discovered a bunch of vitamins and minerals, but it's certainly not complete. Eating real food provides a lot of these additional molecules and compounds that have shown themselves to be good for you over thousands of years of humans eating stuff, but the chemical multivitamins will be missing this.
What the hell are you smoking? Have you actually seen ME and Asian people? They're 5'6 lanklets, and thanks to modern agriculture, if they're not lanklets they're as fat as Americans.