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Health See other Health Articles Title: Multi Vitamins: A Waste of Money? Critical Health News "Laugh Out Loud!" Despite the provocative and somewhat incendiary headlines plastered all over the media, even a cursory reading of the actual article originally published the Annals of Internal Medicine (AIM), reveals scant evidence that taking a multi-vitamin is indeed a waste of money. The breathless headlines and catchy captions refer to the conclusions of an AIM editorial that was based on the result of two studies. The first one looked at 1700 North American adults aged 50 and older who had a myocardial infarction at least 6 weeks prior to the beginning of the study and who randomly received EITHER a high dose 28 component vitamin mineral formulation or a placebo. The second study was done on 6000 male physicians, aged 65 or older, who randomly received a daily multi-vitamin or a placebo. In the first study, after 4.5 years follow-up, mortality was no different between the vitamin group and the placebo group. In the second, after 6.5 years follow-up, vitamin-popping medical men showed no significant improvements in global cognition or verbal memory over their placebo taking colleagues. No mention is made of what kind or amounts of vitamins were taken, when they were taken, what they were taken with or of what kind of health conditions or challenges participants were confronting, especially in terms of digestive health. We don’t even know if and how effectively the participants were absorbing their multi-vitamin supplements. Without answers to these kinds of questions it’s impossible to derive any meaning from this kind of research let alone conclude that regular intake of multi-vitamins is a waste of money. In fact, drawing these kind of conclusions from what are two, in essence, meaningless studies is at best ignorant and a classic example of sensationalism and yellow journalism, with no other purpose than attracting attention. At worst it's dishonest, deceitful and misleading misdirection designed to cast aspersions on nutritional supplementation and create doubt and cynicism on the entire world of non-medical health care. One of the most important points to consider about these periodic hit pieces that come out about multi-vitamin supplementation is the glib and very non-scientific way the word “vitamin” is used. Technically a there are only 6 vitamins specifically designated as B and C and D and E an A and K. And they are all ESSENTIAL. The human body cannot live without them. They are as fundamental and as necessary as air and water. However many health care professionals use the term for essential, vital life-giving chemicals called vitamin as a catch-all descriptive term to designate any kind of molecular substance that is used to support the nutritional content of the diet including mineral, herbal and other non-vitamin molecules. These health care professionals, who should know better, seem to think that the word vitamin is synonymous with a little pill that you take every morning. As in, "should you take a vitamin?" Or, "don’t take vitamins it’s a waste of time." Or, "Vitamins are waste of money." "This way of describing supplements, making a supplemental pill synonymous with a molecule or a chemical, that is in fact to the body what oil and gasoline is to a car, trivializes the absolutely vital nature of the chemicals of life." Poster Comment: Being a small amount in one shot a multi might not be as effective as for example getting vitamin C in an orange. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
New Chapter and another company feed vitamins to yeast so their vitamins are chelated to amino acids and are recognized as food by your body.
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