Take Your Vitamins (in moderation!)
I was approached by a PR company this week to feature a new video about vitamins and Haliborange. It brought back childhood memories of vitamins.
The story takes place in Cardiff. It was the Summer of 1990 and we lived in this really cool bungalow that had a ‘secret garden’ and I had a wash basin in my room, I thought I was the coolest girl in the world (none of this has anything to do with the actual story by the way). One sunny afternoon my brother was playing computer with his friend, and a seven year old me was playing with my dolls when I noticed something on the side in the kitchen that would make the perfect bottle for my ‘babies’. I lifted the bottle and realised that it was still three quarters full. I emptied the contents into a bowl and went about my merry way feeding my babies. Little did I know that my brother had spotted the superted shaped ‘sweets’ and was busy scarfing them with his pal whilst playing computer. Well it wasn’t long before the full horror of the situation became clear when they both started puking luminous orange superted speckled barf everywhere. The ‘bottle’ I’d emptied was a tub of superted children’s vitamins, and the bowl my brother had lifted was now practically empty. The greedy little buggers had scoffed the lot and were facing an unpleasant trip to A & E to get their stomachs pumped.
Yes, I felt immensely guilty about it at the time, but at least as an adult you can laugh at these things ahahahaha 
Here’s the video from Haliborange;
Omega 3 helps increase attentiveness, but the moral of the story? Always take your vitamins in moderation!
Great story, slightly overshadowed by the fact you were only 7 in 1990 – the year I landed my first serious job!! OMG. Ok I’m going to start taking vitamins now to try and stave off old age ….
My little one managed to finish off a ridiculous amount of Omega 3 orange flavoure oil vitamin sweets. I was a bit nervous about it and called NHS direct. They asked me to read the ingredients then told me that the worst I could expect was a slight laxative effect.
They were only wrong in one thing – slight was not the word! But at least it taught her a lesson.