If you would like to get further involved in the effort to help make clean water available to those who are in desperate need (UK site): http://www.wateraid.org/uk/ US site: http://www.wateraidamerica.org/ A pull down menu is available for other countries on the sites above.
I was already a vegetarian, but it's convinced my daughter to go almost 100% vegetarian as well. She still has her moments when she eats seafood.
It isn't that they want to remove the vitamins and minerals from the foods we eat, it's that they want to regulate the vitamin industry as they do the drug industry. Vitamins would be by prescription only. Our bodies can not exist without vitamins and minerals and most of us do not get them in the foods we eat every day, so we take vitamins to supplement our intake. It's just another way the drug industry and the government can make money off of the consumer. 
I don't read Oprah's magazine, but here is a quote from Science News, January 1, 2005: "Women with diabetes consuming at least 300 milligrams of vitamin C per day faced 2.3 times the risk of death from stroke and twice the risk of dying from coronary artery disease as did diabetic women who took in less of the vitamin. Such high doses are hard to achieve without taking vitamin pills." If I were you I would consult my GP and decide from there. It's a bit scary to think about getting ill from taking a vitamin! 
Maybe you could just eat a couple of oranges every day and ask your GP if minor amounts of Zinc supplements would be alright. 
It works great for me, but I have a Mac.
I'm 50. I remember watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. We got dressed up in our dresses with the poofy petticoats so we could dance while watching. My mother was quite young when she had us (she's the same age as Paul), so it was excitement all around. 
