Posted on 04/15/2008 8:34:19 PM PDT by blam
Vitamin pills 'increase risk of early death'
By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 16/04/2008
Popular vitamin supplements taken by millions of people in the hope of improving their health may do no good and could increase the risk of a premature death, researchers report today.
They warn healthy people who take antioxidant supplements, including vitamins A and E, to try to keep diseases such as cancer at bay that they are interfering with their natural body defences and may be increasing their risk of an early death by up to 16 per cent.
Antioxidants, including vitamins A, E, and C are said to mop up free radicals, which cause disease
Researchers at Copenhagen University carried out a review of 67 studies on 230,000 healthy people and found "no convincing evidence" that any of the antioxidants helped to prolong life expectancy. But some "increased mortality".
About 12 million Britons supplement their diets with vitamins and the industry is worth £330 million. But little research has been done on the long-term health implications.
The Department of Health said yesterday that people should try to get the vitamins they need by eating a balanced diet and advised care in taking large doses of supplements.
A spokesman said: "There is a need to exercise caution in the use of high doses of purified supplements of vitamins, including antioxidant vitamins, and minerals. Their impact on long-term health may not have been fully established and they cannot be assumed to be without risk.
"Anyone concerned about their diet should speak to their doctor or dietitian."
Antioxidants, including vitamins A, E, C and beta-carotene and selenium, are said to mop up compounds, called free radicals, which cause disease. It is this action that researchers believe may cause problems with the defence system.
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.
It found that vitamin A supplements increased the risk of death in healthy people by 16 per cent. 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.
Although the review found no significant detrimental effect caused by vitamin C, it found no evidence that it helped ward off disease. Millions take it in the hope of avoiding a common cold.
Goran Bjelakovic, who led the review, said: "We could find no evidence to support taking antioxidant supplements to reduce the risk of dying earlier in healthy people or patients with various diseases.
"If anything, people in trial groups given the antioxidants beta-carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E showed increased rates of mortality."
But Patrick Holford, a nutritionist who has formulated supplements for the company Biocare, said: "Antioxidants are not meant to be magic bullets and should not be expected to undo a lifetime of unhealthy habits.
"When used properly, in combination with a healthy diet full of fruit and vegetables, getting plenty of exercise and not smoking, antioxidant supplements can play an important role in maintaining and promoting overall health."
A spokesman for the Health Supplements Information Service said: "People should get all the vitamins and minerals they need from their diet, but for the millions who are not able to do that, vitamins can be a useful supplement and they should not stop taking them."
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.
"The public can buy vitamins as easily as sweets. They should be treated in the same way as paracetamol with maximum limits on the dosage."
I see you don't read with precision either. You said "perfectly". Please explain why Paul said to put on amour to shield us against darts and other nasty assorted dangers from the enemy if we are protected perfectly. DON'T DODGE!@ Plus please explain to anyone why so many Christians do have battle wounds and scars. Just rattling off some vague verses IS NOT CUTTING IT.
:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
no where, does it say either the leaders or the followers were saved. It says they had knowledge of the truth and forsook it
That's ridiculous. No one has "perfect health."
Are you a Christian Scientist who thinks you make your own health? Or does God give us everything we have?
"For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" -- 1 Corinthians 4:7
That verse does not say they were saved. Scripture does not contradict itself.
ok, well I have perfect health for an old guy, lol
Oh boy... So you too might as well explain why Paul admonished us to put on the whole amour of God so that we could stand against the enemy. Was Paul a nut job? He's telling us to do something we have no need to do? Paul was "buffeted" by the enemy. Or was he making that up? Too bad you were not there to tell him it's was all in his head and impossible.
Of course we do battle on this earth. The earth isn't heaven. There are temptations from all sides.
But with "the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God" (Eph. 6:17) we persevere, knowing we are His and He will never forsake us.
"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." -- 1 Corinthians 10:13
I suggest you read some more of those "vague verses." They "cut it" just fine.
AMEN. No man is without excuse and lots of men have knowledge of the truth. That doesn't mean they understand and believe the truth. Satan knows God is God; he just refuses to worship Him.
Once again a major logical thinking flaw (which is just so rampant here). With you, just because no one can "do it", somehow proves it's not God's will. God wants all of us to not sin. Are you going to say that is "ridiculous", just because "no one" can do it?
So, why don't you just state for the record, how much sickness God wants each of us to have?
LOL. I saw that. You’re the exception. 8~)
You said “perfectly”. You were wrong. Show some humility and admit.
The bible is a "pillar of light" to go before us in the daytime and a "pillar of fire" to guide us by night. By reading the word, preaching the word, and believing the Word, we have God himself leading us, just as the ancient Israelites did. "The enemy" is the flesh, our own lusts and desires, all kinds of things. We need guidance to get through life, and God has graciously provided it to us. God Himself will test us and knowing His law and His Son is our salvation.
It is the correct understanding that Christ has paid for our sins on the cross. An understanding given by God to whom He will when He will for His own perfect glory.
Sorry, that is just flat out incorrect.
"after they have escaped the defilements of the world" means just that. Or would you care to explain how they could "escaped the defilements of the world" without being saved. This one I'm waiting to hear, it should be a doozy...
"they are again entangled therein".
You think demonic possession is a sign or a wonder?
That is true but that WAS NOT what was being disputed. I never said all of our troubles come from Satan so why you go on and on here about that is a real mystery...??
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome , the latter end is worse with them than the beginning
They understood through the knowledge of Christ to do better than they had previously, but they forsook that knowledge
. As 1 John 2:19 says
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
You’re the one that says Christians are all beat up and battle-scarred from fighting Satan, and needs armour.
Codex big pharma bullmess...next!
The scriptures also says that God cannot be faithless. These aren't limitations that God has placed upon Himself. Instead this is the perfection of His character. It never occurs to God to lie just as it never occurs to Him to be faithless.
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