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NEWSWEEK: 'Health for Life: Vitamins and Your Diet'…Taking a vitamin a day and moderately changing your diet can help you live a longer and healthier life

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists have identified nearly 40 vitamins and minerals that the body needs for various tasks, from shoring up bones to bolstering the immune system and repairing cellular damage. Instead of delivering predictable effects at particular doses, they team up in complex ways that we're just beginning to understand.

Forgo your daily orange for a vitamin C pill, and you will miss out on other compounds that protect theheart, fight cancer and combat infections, reports Correspondent Anne Underwood in Newsweek's ongoing series, "Health For Life: Vitamins and Your Diet," produced with Harvard Medical School. "You can't just pop vitamin E over hot-fudge sundaes and expect to get any benefit," says nutritionist Alice Lichtenstein of Tufts University.

In the January 16 issue (on newsstands Monday, January 9), Newsweek explores some of the latest insights on how eating well can help us live well -- and targets some of our most common dietary deficiencies. Also in the Health for Life package: Senior Writer Peg Tyre and Correspondent Jennifer Barrett report on how to build core strength to maintain and improve posture, motility and balance; Assistant Editor Mary Carmichael reports on how friendlybacteria affects our weight; Jennifer Barrett speaks to five leading nutritionists who offer a guide to which supplements they take and why; Dr. Harvey B. Simon, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School,explains how to get big results from small changes in your daily routine; Peg Tyre reports on fitness guru Jack LaLanne; Dr. Gene Cohen, founding director of the Center on Aging, Health & Humanities at George Washington University Medical Center, explains the potential of the brain as it matures; and Executive Editor Dorothy Kalins writes about how to savor what you eat.