"Vitamins taken by around a third of the population do not extend life and may even cause premature death, according to a respected group of international scientists.These findings are similar to research reported in "Are Your Vitamins Safe?" A study using synthetic vitamins, e.g. synthetic vitamin E, resulted in increased rates of lung cancer, heart attacks and death.
After reviewing 67 studies involving more than 230,000 men and women, the experts say there is no convincing evidence that taking supplements of the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E can make you healthier....
"The review involved trials on beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium."It says in-depth analysis of the different trials does not support the idea that vitamins extend lifespan.
'Even more, beta-carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E seem to increase mortality,' says the review. More here
Nearly ALL vitamins sold in the U.S. and the UK are synthetic.
Check your vitamin label against the above report. Then ask for whole food-based multis. There are not many but they do exist.
Here's a company that has them available online. (I am part owner of it, so you are supporting my work when you choose these.)
4 comments:
Did I miss the form of vitamin used for this study? These reports are always skewed and used as scare tactics for the public. It really bugs me to read yet another study like this because of the public reaction.
I am a natural choice believer and these studies tend to help the "drug industry" not the people they are supposed to be helping. If more possitive reports on natural preventive things were available I feel the odds of us living on "approved harmful drugs" would decrease.
Oh well, at least I know from my own personal study what eating right and supplementing with whole food multis did for me.
Robin
www.wholefoodandmore.com
Robin: You wrote:
Did I miss the form of vitamin used for this study?
Given they talk of "beta-carotene" we can safely assume they were the synthetic vitamins nearly 100% available in the UK and US.
Dr Heidi's Are Your Vitamins Safe report pointed to several of those sorts of negative findings with synthetic vitamins, which is a big reason she (and a few others) have created and are offering whole food based supplements instead. Where the nutrients are neither synthetic nor isolated these likely were.
I don't know who financed this study, but no doubt we can find out by checking the source, which is something I am doing today.
Still anything to reduce people blindly taking synthetic vitamins is a good thing.
Eating right is best, for sure.
Kim thanks for pointing out the vitamin source. I was having one of those Duh moments. I do read reports like this all the time and never knew how to write how I felt about it all. Thanks so much for showing how reports like this can actually help, by getting people off the synthetic chemcials. I wish I had thought of that, oh well now I know how to help spread the word about safe vitamins.
Thanks so much
Robin
www.robin.networkmarketingcentral.com
Robin - you wrote:
"Thanks so much for showing how reports like this can actually help, by getting people off the synthetic chemicals. I wish I had thought of that, oh well now I know how to help spread the word about safe vitamins."
When you're looking for the salt, you don't see the pepper right in front of you. At least that's what happens to me...
You know the old game: look around the room and remember everything green?
They do so...
Then, surprise: the person is asked: OK now what did you see that was blue?
Duh.
We expect these studies to be mean spirited and divisive because we assume big pharma must be out to get us again.
They may be.
BUT...
They're also synthetic vitamins that were used by these subjects as far as we know, and what information there is, shows that synthetic vitamins make expensive pee.
Ergo, our focus on the switch to whole food multis - not so much because there are reams of research studies to show those work, but because they're like whole food is to fake food - I'd expect whole food multis to work better because they can be absorbed better than synthetic vitamins - the basis of all these studies and this summary.
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