Vitamin Pills 'Increase Risk Of Early Death'

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

[LucyJo]

My mother’s doctor says butter is much better for you than margarine.

My great-grandfather lived to be 88 yrs. old. He enjoyed eating homemade sausage, fresh pork, canned pork, cured pork, eggs, foods fried in lard, whole milk, homemade biscuits made with lard and dripping with melted butter, homemade preserves, syrups, and jellies, buttermilk, strong coffee, and almost everything we’ve been told will kill us, and he was healthy.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Interesting. I guess it sort of makes sense since it’s a scar treatment that kills germs.

Reminds me of the time I accidentally stabbed myself really deep on the end of my thumb when a sharp, thin knife I was using slipped. It was so deep it was bleeding like crazy and wouldn’t stop. I Krazy Glued the wound back together. Worked great. Have since heard of other people doing this.

[MHGinTN]

There is a type of cynoacrylate (sp?) glue used routinely in surgery.

[redhead]

"The Danish research, released by the influential Cochrane Library, applied only to synthetic supplements and not to vitamins that occur naturally in vegetables and fruit."

Of course, this little gem is buried in the middle of the article...

[Califreak]

Bumping your post.

I believe there was already a move to ban or limit vitamins & nutritional supplements that was defeated recently.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I think I’ll just say that I have quite a different view of the nature of God than you (and probably different than that of most FReepers here, though I was raised Lutheran), so we’ll just leave it at that.

I once asked an acquaintance whether he wore his seat belt when driving. He told me that he didn't bother, because when it's was God's will for him to go, he'd go, and nothing he could do would change that fact. I then asked him whether he'd mind climbing to the top of a local water tower right that moment and jumping off. If it wasn't "his time" he'd survive. If it were "his time" then it would simply be the will of God, and no great tragedy. Needless to say, he declined to carry out the experiment.

[AmericaUnited]

Most vitamins pills that you buy are pure garbage. Cheap, junk ingredients that the body has a hard time assimilating. People need to get their nutrients from natural, unprocessed food, just the way the creator planned.

[AmericaUnited]

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

He has given us the power of choice. If you choose to eat crap, you will die before your "ideal" time.

"Be not deceived, God is not mocked, whatsoever a man sows, he shall reap..."

[Wolfie]

We allowed the Government to control what we put into our bodies. Hell, most of us cheered it on. It’s like the old joke: We’ve already determined what we are, now we’re just hashing out the details.

[Caipirabob]

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

Perhaps there's a tendency of those who take these vitamins to feels they can take more lifestyle risks? It's hard to imagine that a nutritionally complete diet would increase health issues.

[RoadTest]

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

That is correct. Each of us has his or her name written on God’s calendar in two places. One is on our birth date and the other is on our death date.

[aruanan]

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

The "I don't care" part is particularly telling. Remember, fideism isn't faith. Calvinism is as much a man-made theological system as Islam or Mormonism, especially in the sense that Calvin claimed a special revelation of God into understanding the mind of God, a revelation that superseded all that came before him. It may have a lot more Christian elements than the other two, but if you place your faith in Calvinism, you're resting on a broken reed.

[Myrddin]

We allowed the Government to control what we put into our bodies. Hell, most of us cheered it on. It’s like the old joke: We’ve already determined what we are, now we’re just hashing out the details.

That "we" is a very broad brush. I doubt that most people had anything to do with the creation of the current bureaucracies or many of the policies they inflict up on us. The election of leftist politicians promotes leftist behavior in the government. In that respect, the collective "we" that elected them deserve the consequences.

[dfwgator]

Just think ? 60 years ago, everyone cooked with lard... and they seemed to enjoy life more than we do now

[dennisw]

btt

[irishtenor]

My faith rests in Jesus Christ, and him alone.

[irishtenor]

Actually, I think that if we choose to eat “unhealthy” things, we will not die a minute sooner, but we will not enjoy life as much.

[AmericaUnited]

Actually, I think that if we choose to eat “unhealthy” things, we will not die a minute sooner, but we will not enjoy life as much.

So if you chose to eat a lethal dose of arsenic, you do not believe you would die?

[irishtenor]

But that would have been when God chose for me to die, so, yes.

Do you think you can die without God’s will?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I was watching a TV show about health about a year ago, and this some " Professional " something said that even though real butter may have fat in it, at least with real butter, our bodies can digest it, when we eat the fake margarine or the engineered bread spreads, our bodies can't digest it and don't know what to do with it.
When ever I taste the engineered fake margarine bread spreads, I want to trow up.