Vitamins

Recently, my husband and I have started taking vitamin supplements more regularly. He's found that an increase of calcium does actually help with his arthritis, and I feel a bit better for having supplemented a very bad regular diet. That might be purely in my head. Yesterday, while getting the last the last of my prescriptions filled on the last of my health plan (yup - got ye olde epipen (sp) freshened up) I was killing time actually reading the whole labels on the comparative mulitvitamin bottles. Both the Bayer and Life brand had much of the same things, and the Life was three dollars less which had me looking. The differed in some ways - one also contained sugar, while the other also contained shellac. These were the only "non-medicinal" ingredients I could pronounce. Why put sugar in something you can't taste? Doesn't the North American diet have enough? Why put shellac at all? Internally, am I actually a boat and it's just something my Dr has been hiding from me? It may be that the Jamieson brand does have shellac in it but is just being quiet about it, but over all I liked their ingredient list better so ended up paying $6 more to get away from the crazy list of colourings the other ones had. Who cares how it's coloured? It's not like it has to go with the drapes.