Partner and I go into GNC once in a while, and we both get
carried away with all of the healthy stuff, and we invariably buy things.
Partner came out last year with a box of mega-vitamins which happened to be on
sale. “Do you want these?” he said not long ago. “I don’t think I’m going to
take these. They don’t appeal to me.”
“Fine,” I said.
I opened the box. Inside were thirty nice little foil
packets of six pills each. Each pill was about the size of a piece of driveway
gravel. Two were vitamins, minerals, etc.; two were various botanical extracts
– dillweed, ginkgo, etc.; and the last two were various amino acids
(citrulline, arginine, and glutamine).
Healthy, eh?
Then I opened the first packet.
Jesus, the smell! It was sort of like a chemistry lab, or a
fire in a pesticide factory. And they tasted as bad as they smelled.
I’ve been taking them for about a week now. I do believe I
feel a bit better – maybe a bit more energetic.
But every day I have to choke down these repulsive horse
pills that taste like dirt-flavored cyanide.
Maybe I’m healthier. But is it worth it?
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