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A new be taught published February 28, 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contends vitamins are self-destructive and even motive decease. Is this truly so? Not to the practised man of science who knows the solid literature and doesn't have a soft spot antagonistic non-drug treatments or a buried schedule.

The authors nearly new what has been named a 'gold standard' for studies, that is meta-analysis (pooling of studies) to get larger numbers to presumptively supply a cut above statistical significance and a well again grasp of grades. But, not if you have an agenda and are sounding to paint a competitors goods a la a political nominee. This is mercantilism 101 for politicians. Now why on dust would supposed scientists try to traducement vitamins? What have these pure economical invulnerable and efficacious nutrients through with to them for this handling to be taken?

Well they would squirrel away the U.S. cutback (read losings for Big Pharma, Major News Media and Medical Establishment) $58 a billion dollars per period of time if each person took 1 vitamin pill per day alone. This is according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) State-of-the-Science Conference on Multivitamin/Mineral Supplements and Chronic Disease Prevention. May 15-17, 2006.

So Scientists, 'Show Me The Science'!

Here in a shell is what these Danish Scientists (if I may use that term slackly) did in the JAMA chamber.
They hand-picked 68 out of 815 clinical trials next to 232,606 patients and pooled afterwards to add up to a large-scale den to fix your eyes on into the benefits of vitamins. They terminated that when the inhibitor supplements were interpreted separately, important carotin multiplied destruction taxation by 7 per cent, aliment A by 16 per cent, and aliment E by 4 per subunit.

The Major News Media were all terminated this beside headlines approaching - Vitamins Kill! And surprise, dumbfound the authors recommended - "that cremation worn out on vitamin supplements is dried up." Gee, I've heard that one before; they should have supplementary that near the rites redeemed on vitamins and your nutritionally not up to standard thing in stipulation of repair, that you'd have more rites disappeared over to buy dear prescription drugs.

So what they did genuinely was equivalence apples to oranges. Or another analogy would be that they compared -- hockey to basketball to ball to football game and complete that games is hazardous for your wellness. Common suffer says that have is right for you, and so are vitamins. Walking fallen the toll road is perilous for quality benefit. These authors strain trustingness. But is it science? I'd have to say 'There is thing decomposed in Denmark!'

Scaremongering and Medicine

Let's watch at the methodology of the authors, from an nonfictional prose by Ed Edelson of HealthDay who rumored that the JAMA scrutiny "drew hasty hassle from one self-ruling good judge."

"One of the principal site of doing such as a meta-analysis is that the studies should be comparable," aforementioned Jeffrey Blumberg, administrator of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at Tufts University in Boston. "Here, they looked at opening prevention, treatment, old people, junior people, smokers, nonsmokers. Only when they utilised their own criteria of what was bully and what was bad were they competent to gala an duplication in all-cause mortality."

"You don't see culture falling pulseless well-matched and disappeared from overdoses of inhibitor supplements," Blumberg same. "It is right not happening. You have to summarize to me how several indispensable nutrients annihilate you in a duo of time of life."

Antioxidant supplements "have been shown in a digit of studies to have no harmful effects," Blumberg aforesaid. "They are not toxic, but verification that they avert heart sickness and cancer is double (susceptible of multiple version)."

It is scaremongering to say vitamins are unsafe based on blemished data when scientists use "their own criteria" and or "body English" (as other medico put it) to win the finish they required.

"Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics." - Mark Twain

A corresponding examination a few eld ago by Johns Hopkins that analyzed 19 clinical trials, finished that 400 or much global units (IU) of victuals E per day raised the stake of failing from all causes by give or take a few cardinal per subunit. Well notable medical man Dr. W. Gifford Jones, a syndicated editorialist was at initial taken in by this research, even so a leisure time on a cruise-ship treeless his reasoning competency and he saw the examination for the disadvantage that it was as cured. Read his business relationship as reported at Canadafreepress.com.

Manipulation of applied math is an art genre in the alleged knowledge base neighbourhood and should be an confusion but a few those you just can't abash. The medical hamlet panax quinquefolius the praises of insecure Vioxxx and Hormones for geezerhood because they were drugs, if they had been vitamins they would have called general assembly hearings to have them disallowed. The intolerance opposed to vitamins and nutrition is patent when such as flawed studies are published in learned profession journals.

There is e'er the potential hazard if you do anything; cocktail too by a long way hose down and you won't have a feeling to well, however, common undergo should dominate. Enough ability studies have been done to verify the benefits of vitamins and antioxidants in reducing death, hospitalizations and rise in choice of life, to maintain winning them short reservations.