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And it's big business $32 brake light in 2012. joining me now, the author katherine price. a welcome to you. i just want to clear up semantics here. what's the difference between a vitamin and a dietary supplement? >> i'm very happy you asked that question. that's commonly confused. so there's actually only 13 human vitamins. those are the ones that usually go by letters, the a, c, d, e, k, and then eight b viet minutetaminsvitamins. but only 13 of those. there's a much larger category of products called dietary supplements, about 85,000 products is the last estimate i've seen. they're regulat...

Pills. the 13 human vitamins are absolutely essential for us. without them, we would die. they cause horrible nutritional deficiency diseases. that's not the same as the larger category of dietary supplements. >> when did the food industry start putting dietary supplements into food? >> they started putting synthetic vitamins into food the man made form in the '30s and '40s when it became possible to do so. some of the products we love the most happen to be the most refined and processed. when you have that it needs to last for a long time on store shelves. you also accidently destroy many of ...