The Daily Mail’s Vitamin Supplement
“CAN VITAMINS DO YOU HARM,” asks the Mail on its front page.
After reading the piece we conclude: “Do they?”
But the final works must be with the Mail, which brings readers this scoop: “Could vitamin pills shorten your life?”
April 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Er, possibly. But not as much as Vioxx:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/299/15/1813
April 16th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
A healthy balanced diet is the thing - red wine weighs exactly the same as white, - so vary it
April 16th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Who wrote the report says cynical pigletwiglet? The sceptical side of me would say that whoever is behind this report is a drugs company!
Eat a balanced diet and you will get the majority of vitamins without wasting money on expensive supplements, however, I do not believe that to be true all of the time.
Extra glucosamine for instance, can be extremely effective for joint/ bone/spinal conditions and it has helped me and others I know to reduce prescribed medications. In the summer months I have reduced one of my medications to zero because of supplements so I’m not prepared to say that additional vitamins are not always required.
April 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Of course vitamin pills can shorten your life.
My uncle Jim died of a heart attack when he saw the price of the bloody things.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:33 am
This vitamin-supplement study is not only biased, but worse, had a pre-meditated agenda to discredit vitamin and dietary supplements. According to The Mail’s own article, the study included data from only those trials which contained fatalities, rejecting the results of the 405 trials which demonstrated NO fatalities. Therefore, the study rejected any data that could dispute the trumped-up link between vitamin/antioxidant supplements and increased mortality. Like the study in 2002 by an Oxford University laboratory funded by Monsanto (the world’s largest producer of Genetically Modified products) which predictably found no benefit in taking Vitamin supplements, this latest “study” bears the mark of propaganda for powerful, government-intimate special interests, attempting to divert the public’s attention away from time-honoured health practices, in favour of their own artificial and/or synthetic products - such as Genetically Modified products and snake-oil-derived (read “Petroleum-based”) Pharmaceutical products.
It has long been the practice of these mighty industries to eliminate any competition to their strangle-hold over the population’s dependence upon their industry’s often less-effective, eco-unfriendly, over-priced, unwholesome products. If their products were genuinely so much superior, then there would be no need for this tactic of assassinating the competition - dirty tactics and lies are the preserve of those who otherwise have no other strategy to offer.