Vitamin Pills 'Increase Risk Of Early Death'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-16-2008 | Kate Devlin

[irishtenor]

There is no “early death”, there is only death. We all die when we are supposed to. Not a minute sooner.

[elkfersupper]

Since everything is bad for us, can we have our cigarettes back?

[martin_fierro]

Nonsense.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Everytime I hear someone say something like that, I think of stories like this:

http://www.wbaltv.com/news/7964092/detail.html?rss=bal&psp=nationalnews

Did she die when she was supposed to?

How do you know?

[Jeff Chandler]

Of course.

[dbacks]

There is no good thing a lib cannot degrade into a negative!

[MaxMax]

Well this explains why our American life span is only 30-years old.
It helps, it hurts, it helps, it hurts. Babble.

[mtg]

Antioxidants, including vitamins A, E, C and beta-carotene and selenium, are said to mop up compounds, called free radicals, which cause disease.

Geez... I guess nothing on earth is safe anymore. Time to move to another planet I guess.

[bioqubit]

There is no polite way to put it, but we will start with pure unadulterated BS as the most succinct analysis.

All the criticisms of meta-analysis apply to studies like these. They are so unbelievably imprecise. Also, There are not just 67 studies of vitamin usage, there are THOUSANDS, if not tens of thousands over the 50-60 years. 67 sounds pretty selective to me.

Moreover, there is no effort to identify those who are in poor health from those who are not.

Plus, next to nothing is known about what constitutes an effective dosage for a lot of vitamins and supplements.

So many negative studies are simply because they either gave too little or for too short a period of time.

Plus, the article leaves you with the impression that vitamins are unhealthy. Nothing could be further from the truth...read the GD literature for craps sake.

[wastedyears]

So should people stop taking vitamins?

[upsdriver]

However, Catherine Collins, of the British Dietetic Association, said: "This study is deeply worrying and shows that there should be more regulation for vitamins and minerals.

And that is the purpose of this whole damn study, to regulate and control the supplement business.

[Myrddin]

The Europeans are trying to push CODEX down our throats. If they succeed, you'll have to go to a doctor for a prescription for vitamins available off the shelf today.

[buccaneer81]

We all die when we are supposed to. Not a minute sooner.

You must be a Calvinist.

[irishtenor]

***Did she die when she was supposed to?***

My answer: Yes, because God is in charge of all things, even our death.

As tragic as this story is, there are thousands just like it every day. A man drowns while saving a cat in a river, a woman dies while driving her car, a man has a heart attack right next to the fire station and no one can help him, a baby is carried off by a lion in Africa, thousands die of cholera... I can pick any day and find stories just as tragic, but does that mean they didn’t die a minute earlier or later than they should have?

[KoRn]

I believe the bottom line is that people should take the least pills as possible no matter what, even when you are sick.

If we needed pills or vitamins to live longer, we would have been born with them, or our body would somehow make an equivalent source of nourishment naturally...

[Theophilus]

There is no “early death”, there is only death. We all die when we are supposed to. Not a minute sooner.

This!

[irishtenor]

True.

[underground]

You mean a twinkie and three pills isn’t the same as an orange, even if the calories, carbs, and vitamin numbers look the same?!! /s

Pills by their very nature are tough for the kidney & liver to deal with. Most of what they offer can be found in more easily digested foods.

[irishtenor]

This what?