Who knew, orthomolecular has gone humanitarian.  I was ecstatic after reading an article from CBC news titled “Eat Your Vitamins: A very Canadian way to solve a world problem” to see that the true value of a vitamin has finally been captured.  This article demonstrates that one small vitamin pill can have global implications and enormous economical impact.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Given the hypothetical question “what if Bill Gates offered you $10 billion to solve the problems of the world, what would you spend it on?”  Canadian economist Susan Horton answered with micronutrient supplements.  By spending $347 million a year over five years to deliver vitamin A, iron, iodine, zinc and folic acid to diets in the sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, she estimated that something in the order of $5 billion would be saved in health care expenses and future earnings along with 3.5 million lives.                                                                                                                                                                                                To me, this is orthomolecular at its best!!