Multivitamins for fat loss?

Q: I am on a healthy diet but there are days where I can't eat fruits or vegetables. My main concern is that I take a multivitamin everyday for health reasons like and I also want to lose the weight but stay on a proper diet. To put it in simple words, will multivitamins prevent me from losing fat or cause weight gain even if I am strictly on a diet?

A: Without knowing what your healthy diet is all about, it's hard to advise you on balancing it. See, if a diet needs 'balancing' - what makes you think it's healthy?

What I can suggest is that you read more about weight loss and supplements:

• Vitamins and Fat Burning: What works, what doesn't, and what work against it.
• Fat Burning Supplements: Review
• Are 90 of your vitamins going down the toilet?

Tanya Zilberter, PhD