It's ridiculous.
It's a fitness magazine, after all, so shouldn't everything in there really make you fit? Not so much.
"Eat natural foods" means that what we consume comes in the form of raw food that we either consume raw or cook to kill bacteria. If you close your eyes & imagine your supermarket, you walk into an area that has produce on the far right or far left of the market. Spend lots of time getting to know the fruits & veggies, and put many of them into your cart, especially the ones in season. In produce, move to the back of the market where you'll find cheese, milk, meat, butter, greek yogurt, & eggs. Sometimes, you'll even find raw nuts where produce gives way to meat. Keep moving around the market for 100% whole wheat bread. When you do have to venture into the aisles for things like olive oil, spices, & peppers, don't stay long. This is the route around a normal grocery store for natural foods.
Supplements are not natural food. They are engineered food. That doesn't mean that they're all bad, but it also doesn't mean that they're all good, either. One has to learn how to read labels and discriminate very closely to discern the great from the good from the not-so-good.
Do your homework.
Vitamins are a little different than engineered foods. If we're getting all of the vitamins we need because we're consuming nutrient-dense natural foods that are primarily plants, then we don't need the vitamins & they come out of our body in our urine. However, there are times when we may be rich in one vitamin & poor in another because of our food choices that day or week.
For this reason, many choose to take a multivitamin for this. It's kinda like sand filling in any little cracks we might have missed.
I challenge you to examine the natural foods you consume. Are they nutrient dense? If you choose to supplement, are you a wise consumer that does his/her homework?
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