Avoid The Flu This Season With Vitamins

STUDIO CITY (CBSLA.com) — Dr. Lauren Crosby visited the KCAL9 studios Wednesday to talk about ways to avoid the flu, using some of her favorite vitamins.

Sales of things like Flintstone Gummy bear vitamins and AlternaVites (which are like vitamin pixie sticks) are all the rage.  Dr. Crosby says these mommy and me vitamins are popular out of convenience and because a lot of people have phobias about swallowing big vitamins.

Once just marketed to children, these days the colorful, chewable, sweet-tasting vitamins are now ubiquitous in stores' adult vitamin sections, and makers of such adult vitamins say that the category has been enjoying major growth as of late.

Dr. Crosby recommends that you should always look at the label because some of these are actually loaded with sugar while others are much healthier and sugar-free, vegetarian and kosher.