Vitamin Pills 'Increase Risk Of Early Death'

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

[fieldmarshaldj]

So like Brooke Shields, nothing gets between you and your Calvin's. ;-)

[fieldmarshaldj]

What did you do ? Put your pecker in the blender ? =8-0>

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Um...You held your fingers over an open flame and burned the psoriasis off?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Not matter what any of our theological beliefs are, I always try to keep in mind when we go to heaven that we will hear GOD say to us “ all of you were wrong “ so shout up and enjoy heaven.

[Myrddin]

The problem with that is, doctors, for the most part, don’t know jack about food supplements. In fact, most don’t even believe in them.

The objective is to wipe out the over the counter supplements industry. As you observed, most doctors are clueless on the topic. It's a safe bet that pharmacies would never maintain the stock levels that you find over the counter today. Certainly not at current prices after having to visit a doctor for a prescription and bother a pharmacist to fetch the goods. Further, CODEX would likely outlaw the manufacture of most items available today.

[LucyJo]

From what I’ve read, this actually may be worth a try. I’m going to do a bit more research.

[MHGinTN]

Seriously, I actually sured a pretty bad case of it, using “new Skin’ painted on the ends of my fingers. It was an open, bleeding sores mess that I was wearing vinyl gloves to keep blood off of my keyboard. I tried painting the ‘New Skin’ on, to avoid the sweaty gloves. The psoriasis went away immediately and has never returned. A doctor friend says I should write it up and submit it to JAMA or the podiatric journal. I’m retired from the pharmaceutical business, so I told him he could do it, if he would treat one or two patients that way and see if they got similar results. I haven’t had lunch with him for two years now, so I don’t know if he did it or not.

[MHGinTN]

The Aussie/English slang for nose is pecker. I’m gonna presume you were referring to my nose ...

[irishtenor]

I don’t know where you get your information, and in fact, I don’t care, just don’t equate Calvinism with ANYTHING to do with Islam, ok?

Islam worships one God who is Allah. Jesus, to them is a holy man, only. Calvinists believe in the Triune God.

[irishtenor]

It ain’t dinner unless there’s meat!!!

[Marie2]

I KNOW coffee is good for me. I can smell it and taste it.

Chocolate, too.

[Marie2]

So in your view God can’t stop people from dying if He wants to?

Either He decides when people die, or, He sits by helplessly.

I think the Bible shows the former, given the Bible verses mentioned previously.

The muslims believe there is just one God. They are right about that. That doesn’t mean I’m a muslim. They think stealing is a sin, so do I. Etc. They can have some correct concepts, as many religions do, without being the one true faith.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" It ain’t dinner unless there’s meat!!! "
You forgot the potatoes and carrots.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" I KNOW coffee is good for me. I can smell it and taste it."
Sometimes it can work as a laxative, well, at least for me it does. lol.

[underground]

I dunno, there’s also rice & split peas... I can’t have four veggies with dinner, there’d be no room for the beef!

[LucyJo]

Coffee is another one of those things that was going to kill, but is now beneficial. lol.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

" I dunno, there’s also rice & split peas... I can’t have four veggies with dinner, there’d be no room for the beef!"

My dad would say to me , " there is always Jello "

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Remember when our mothers would cook everything in Crisco Oil and tasted great ?
Just think ? 60 years ago, everyone cooked with lard... and they seemed to enjoy life more than we do now....
I hate the fake tasting margarine spread for bread, I am going back to real butter.

[MHGinTN]

Yup, and it is their loss.

[garbanzo]

Taking beta-carotene was linked to a 7 per cent increased risk, while regular users of vitamin E supplements increased the risk of an early death by four per cent.

Here's the handy rule for evaluating whether or not you need to make major life choices on the basis of published study - convert the increased risk to betting odds and see whether or not it's a bad bet. In the quoted part above, the "betting line" would be 1.07:1 - considering of course that even money is 1:1 odds. By contrast the line for getting lung cancer from smoking is 7:1. Given the weakness of the statistical method, it's almost certain that there is no significant added risk.