Recomendations for a good Men's Multi Vitamin?

My inexpert opinion is that any multi-vitamin would be fine.  Go for the cheapest if that's what you're leaning toward.  The more expensive ones are likely just a bunch of marketing hype.  If you have a balanced diet you probably don't even need a multi-vitamin, but it doesn't hurt to take one just in case.  I take one, but have no clue which brand it is....

Brian

Alade SL ; Brown RE ; Paquet A Jr. Polysorbate 80 and E-Ferol toxicity. Pediatrics 1986 Apr;77(4):593-7.

A 24 YEAR-OLD STUDY ON A PARTICULAR CLINICAL IV USAGE IN LOW BIRTH WEIGHT NEONATES IN NICU. NO RELEVANCE.

Blecher, Louis. Excipients - The Important Components. Pharmaceutical Processing Jan 95, page 6.

NOT PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH. MORE OF A "HANDBOOK" NO EVIDENCE THAT ONE VITAMIN IS OR IS NOT FOLLOWING APPROPRIATE GUIDELINES.

Bove KE et al. Vasculopathic hepatotoxicity associated with E-Ferol syndrome in low-birth-weight infants. JAMA 1985 Nov 1;254(17):2422-30.

ANOTHER 25 YEAR OLD STUDY ON IV VITAMIN E ADMINISTER TO LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS.

Czap, Al. IS YOUR POLYPLASDONE KOLLIDON WITH YOUR SO LKA-FLOC? Townsend Letter for Doctors, November 1984/Issue No. 21.

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE MAGAZINE. NOT PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH.

Green, Dr. Keith. Detergent Penetration Into Young and Adult Eyes. Department of Opthamology, Medical College of GA, Augusta, GA.

ACTUALLY THE TITLE IS "Detergent Penetration Into Young and Adult Rabbit Eyes - Comparative Pharmacokinetics" (1987)... 26 YEAR OLD REPORT THAT CONCLUDES 16-Carbon-CHain detergents to more damage than 12-Carbon Chain Detergents. No discussion on vitamins.

Horrobin, David. Journal of Holistic Medicine, vol.3, no.2, Fall/Winter 1981, p. 132. Okhamafe AO ; York P.

I cannot find this article through UCLA's database. Is this the same David Harrobin with legal problems for his illegal supplement sales?

Thermal characterization of drug/polymer and excipient/polymer interactions in some film coating formulation. J Pharm Pharmacol 1989 Jan;41(1):1-6.

I could only get the abstract, and I cannot form an opinion on the abstract alone. It does not appear to be remotely close to the claims.

Based on this, I recommend...

1. If you are a low-birthweight neonate in intensive care, don't time travel to the 1980's to receive IV administrations of Vitamin E. You probably should not take adult centrum orally either. Although, the pill may be wider than your esophogus.

2. If you a rabbit, don't put 16-carbon-chain detergents in your eye. Actually, don't put 12-C detergents in either. For that matter, don't put Multi-Vitamins in your eyes.

3. If you sell questionable supplements, you can cite a guy who has had over a millions dollars of product siezed by the FDA  (WHO RARELY SIEZES SUPPLEMENTS!) and most people will not even question that fact!

4.  If one of my students wrote an essay like the work cited, I would find a way to give them more than one F.

 - Half of the articles are not citable as viable research.

 - Format could not even be consistent. Titles were omitted or changed.

 - They do nothing to support the assertions or conclusions made. (The presence of a compound in Vitamin "A" and no in  Vitamin "B". The evidence that this compound is dangerous in the manner and dosage present.)

 - They are not contemporary to the current body of reproducible research.

ETA: I will not "LMFAO". As an educator, I died a little inside writing this post... The fact that I felt the need to to show that this is not "commonly known info" or "common research" makes me wonder how soon our failure in basic science education will make our economy submissive to China or India.