Vitamins and supplement sales may be booming, but according to the experts, eating a balanced diet can provide you with all their benefits, plus many more. Here’s what to focus on.

Nutrition expert and Deakin University Professor Welma Stonehouse was asked by her brother for her opinion on a dietary powder for his cholesterol and liver that he had purchased online.

“I looked at the packet carefully and thought it was a waste of money, as it was unlikely to do much for either his liver or cholesterol,” says the former president of the Nutrition Society of Australia.

The same can be said for many of the products that proliferate in Australia’s $3 billion-dollar dietary supplement industry.

Eating a balanced diet can benefit your health in ways that vitamins cannot.…