Posted on 12/16/2013 5:40:43 PM PST by chicagolady
“Enough” with the multivitamins already.
Well God bless your pills. Some dieting programs recommend it. It’s just that a bunch of vitamins isn’t always proven to be wonderful.
Dr. Linus Pauling wasn’t an idiot. I’ll trust him instead of the drug companies and their “studies”.
Elmer FUDd?
square peg round hole!
So, the 1st study “found no evidence that vitamin and mineral supplementation would reduce heart disease in pill takers.”
“The next study....found the multivitamin did nothing to slow cognitive decline among men 65 and older compared to placebo takers.”
“The third study looked specifically at multivitamins and minerals role in preventing another heart attack, or myocardial infarction.”
But what about energy and other aspects?
His laugh therapy probably did him more good than the vitamins he took along with it. But we remember the vitamins and not the laughs for some reason.
If you have half decent diet, the most you need is a multi. The mistake people make is to think that if a little is good than more must be better.
It’s not the single multi that is a waste of money, but the single pill per vitamin and mineral that is the problem.
Anything more than the body actually uses just gets pissed away.
To do this subject justice would require a depth of study that nobody is motivated to fund. IMHO.
Well, that’s sort of my point. Rather than bombarding my system with a high potency dose of a lot of vitamins, I’m taking a relatively low potency dose. As far as I know, it hasn’t been proven that not taking vitamins is wonderful either, so I’m sort of trying to hit the middle ground.
I wouldn’t worry about 1 A Day or the established brands except that they aren’t getting to the unhealthy populations that could benefit the most. The examples of outright harmful vitamins in these studies tend to be can ones that can potentially cause toxicities. Either people who take vitamins and minerals in amounts above the established upper limits of the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) or above the recommended amount.
so I guess since vitamins are meaningless the fed gov’t can move on from their intent to control them and find something else to dig their claws into.
I read years ago that vitamin, “I think C” would prevent scurvy. If so there is no question that vitamins have a potential benefit.
I think if you eat a healthy diet then they are not necessary but some of us do not eat a healthy diet.
I remember in Churchill’s six volume “History of WWII”, he was trying to figure out ways to supply Malta. He suggested that maybe they could parachute vitamins to them. A docter explained to him that you need a lot more than vitamins. At least Churchill was thinking.
Hey like I said, God bless your vitamins. Some kind of empirical benefit even if it is placebo is a better state than none. This whole reality we live in is spiritually maintained.
I generally ignore these studies until they are replicated with a 57 out of 113 pro or con. I still remember the “drinking coffee will kill you” daily yes it will or no it won’t several years ago.
I agree fully. Vitamin. C in particular is very helpful methinks. And yes , Pauling ( who I knew some ) was a brilliant person.
They did a blurb on this study on ABC radio news as I was driving home today and apparently the findings were very narrow and only applied to a few specific groups. They weren’t making any general claims about the benefits of vitamins.
unlike all the ‘experts’ that poison you into the grave with pain killers, steroids, chemo, etc.....right??
I’ll take sircus all day long.
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