It misses the importance of (normal quantities of) Vitamin D. Many people live in places where they're unlikely to get correct amounts of Vitamin D, especially because of the (correct) caution about sun exposure and the move away from dairy fats.
For those people a Vitamin D supplement is a good idea.
Also, women wanting to become pregnant should strongly consider folate supplements.
And children probably need (correct child dose) multivitamins up until about 4 or 5 years old.
Is it simple like a urine pregnancy/drug screen test that gives quantitative recommendations?
Or is it more like arrange with your doctor to draw some blood, have it tested, then get an expert appraisal of the results which recommends a set of supplements?
Either way, it should probably be done periodically, to account for changes in diet and personal circumstances.
I wonder if this is something that personalised medicine could start with -- A machine which combines the blood analyser, expert system for determining requirements, and a set of dispensers that load the exact quantities into capsules while you wait. Ideally it'd work with something like a glucose test finger-prick sample, but I have no idea how much blood you need to run some of the more complex blood analyses.
Living in the Great White North (Canada), pretty much every health group ever recommends a vitamin D supplement because we get so little sunlight. As an office worker, this goes double for me.
Also conspicuously missing from their list are vitamin B supplements; as a vegetarian I take B12, but they don't make any comment on whether this could have similar effects.
It misses the importance of (normal quantities of) Vitamin D. Many people live in places where they're unlikely to get correct amounts of Vitamin D, especially because of the (correct) caution about sun exposure and the move away from dairy fats.
For those people a Vitamin D supplement is a good idea.
Also, women wanting to become pregnant should strongly consider folate supplements.
And children probably need (correct child dose) multivitamins up until about 4 or 5 years old.
EDIT: Some sources.
UK National Health Service: (http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/vitami...) - notice how it stresses the importance of healthy diet, but also advises for Vitamin D supplements.
Scotland: Warning over Vitamin D levels (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11355810)