Does anyone know:

The amt of vitamin in most caps/tabs is about 50-100 times the amount you could obtain from even the most vitamin-heavy food at one meal.

Why do they put such huge quantities in one pill? Is it because 90% of the wanted substance is not even absorbed? Then that means the remainder is either excreted or deposited someplace in the body where it wasn't meant to be.

If it is excreted, still, that is work for the body to perform.

I would think that vitamin/mineral pills are really not a good idea for these reasons. Do you all here really feel "better", that you have truly benefited from taking vitamin/minerals in the form of pills? I would like to hear your opinion.