One of my long-time favorite health reporters, Bill Sardi, has been offering factual and provocative reports for at least 20 years or more.
On the topic of Multi-vitamins… Bill offer an excellent examination of the facts that refute what was published in the
Annals of Internal Medicine and then picked up and beaten to death by the uninformed media.
Shall We Slam the Door on Multivitamins Once and For All?
Posted January 6, 2013 by Bill Sardi
“ That’s what an editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine said. After citing flawed study after flawed study where multivitamins were found to be ineffective at reducing death rates or mental decline with advancing age, and even citing published studies to say multivitamins are harmful and even kill people, these experts from the most prestigious medical centers in the world said “we believe the case is closed – supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough.”
Case closed?
Hardly.
The catch: “well nourished.”
All present studies are flawed
Representatives of the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University responded to these efforts to throw multivitamins into the closet and throw away the key by saying most published vitamin studies are flawed. They explained, until controlled studies obtain blood levels of nutrients before and at the completion of the study, it cannot be said vitamin pills are ineffective. Because of problems with vitamin absorption and transport, which are rampant among older adults, the most frequent users of these pills, it cannot be said they are ineffective. “
Continue here… and enjoy the many great selection of topics Bill examines expertly at his website.
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knowledgeofhealth.com]
Also worth reading is this post from the other thread in case you missed it…
More on the bad press about vitamins...
Here’s a refreshing report assessing anti-vitamin scare tactics… published in Orthomolecular News October 20, 2011 and again last year in Townsend Letter Feb March 2012 and on the website of the author Andrew W. Saul, PhD, Editor of Orthomolecular Medicine News Service … titled
How to Make People Believe Any Anti-Vitamin Scare……It Just Takes Lots of Pharmaceutical Industry Cash
Informative and referenced.
Interesting points
• Cash to study authors
• Advertising revenue
• Rigged Trials
• Bias in what is published or rejected for publications
• Censorship of what is intended and available to doctors and the public
Emphasis on these facts…
• 27% reduction in AIDS deaths among patients given vitamin supplements
• No deaths from vitamins in 27 years
• Antibiotics cause 700,000 emergency room visits per year just in the US
And more….
Note especially the reference to increased risk of pancreatic cancer with daily aspirin intake.
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orthomolecular.org]
Then check out Andrew Saul’s website.. [www.doctoryourself.com] for a wealth of highly informative and useful information.
Jackie