Posted on 08/15/2007 2:13:48 PM PDT by Sam's Army
Madonna shocks aeroplane passengers with mid-air vitamin jab 15.08.07
Madonna is reported to have started injecting herself with vitamins to boost her energy levels.
The singer, who turns 49 on Thursday, is said to have surprised passengers on a recent flight from New York to London by injecting herself with a vitamin shot in her arm.
Nutritionists said that such a drastic practice could have potentially harmful long-term effects on her health.
The singer is said to have refused food on the seven-hour flight and only drank bottled water.
A source told Closer magazine: "Seven hours was a long time to go without eating. Madonna was quiet, talking to the air staff only to ask for water.
"Just before landing, she brought out the phials of vitamins and injected herself."
It is understood that Madonna was injecting herself with B6 and B12 vitamins to boost her energy.
Such a drastic health measure is apparently all the rage among celebrities.
Geri Halliwell has in the past admitted to giving herself 'regular injections of a cocktail of vitamins', and Lindsay Lohan and Britney spears are also said to be fans of the health fad - in Britney's case to boost her energy before she goes on stage.
But Claire Williamson, a nutrition scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation called the practice in healthy individuals completely unnecessary and also said it could be dangerous.
She said: "There is a risk of direct toxicity from excessive intakes of some nutrients. Furthermore, high intakes of some nutrients can inhibit the absorption or metabolism of others.
"The long-term effects of such a regime are also unknown. It is known, however, that high doses of some nutrients may have adverse long-term effects e.g. large amounts of vitamin A over a long time may have adverse effects on bone health, making bones more likely to fracture.
"There is no reason why multivitamin and mineral injections should be any more beneficial than supplements and may indeed be dangerous."
An individual's inability to absorb vitamins is linked to their body fat. Where a person has a limited amount of fat in their diet, the fat-soluble vitamins cannot be absorbed properly by the body.
This is why some people who have a low fat intake can suffer from vitamin deficiency. Madonna is known to have a strict macrobiotic diet and adhere to a draconian fitness regime which gives her little fat and sinewy muscles.
Nutrition scientist Claire MacEvilly has said of injecting vitamins: "Vitamin injections are an extreme and dangerous fad which has come from the US - it is not very popular over here yet and hopefully will not take off.
"Overdosing on the non-soluble vitamins by injecting them is easy to do and is a real concern. It can cause cramps, nosebleeds, nausea, blurred vision, dry skin, liver disease, weight loss, kidney stones and permanent kidney damage, irritability and jaundice.
"In the most extreme cases it can lead to death.'
Madonna's publicists were not available to comment.
Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie will celebrate her birthday today with a party for 30 of her close friends including Sting and Trudie Styler at Ashcombe House, her country pile in Wiltshire.
Guests will be entertained by a show from the Devil's Horsemen, a troupe of expert film industry horses and riders.
Uh, country pile of what?
I would imagine she had them X-Ray or visually screened like everyone else who takes such medications through.
Vitamins are to be taken with food; otherwise they’re not very effective. This chick walks in the dark, doesn’t she?
It’s the direct result of sin and it’s toll on the body.
Oh no, not the man hands...
Those look like the hands of an insanely fit person, which Madonna certainly is. “Lady-like”? No. But look at that body...muscular, not a trace of fat.
Sorry, I didn’t realize that was allowed.
How did she get a needle on an airplane to inject the Vitamins?
Oh, sure that is so common that people are injecting themselves all over the world in public every hour of the day.
She isn’t going to keel over from scurvy on an airline flight for christsakes.
It is bizarre behavior, and poorly thought.
Although not uncommon in the circles of the wealthy insane.
Ahh! I miss Madge.
A not from her physician is all she would need. They cannot deny medical equipment from flights.
That should have read note.
I self inject B-12 weekly due to a chronic disease. Never a problem with TSA or international screeners.
She is obviously using steroids. There should be an * next to her record sales totals!
Of course, there's also the comment of Claire MacEvilly: "Vitamin injections are an extreme and dangerous fad which has come from the US - it is not very popular over here yet and hopefully will not take off."
Those evil colonials! They are shooting up left and right! Nevermind the mention of Geri Halliwell in the story.
Perhaps it's the high-flying crowd, not by nationality. And there are very legitimate reasons for taking things intravenously.
Stop it with the facts.
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