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A new sanctum published February 28, 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contends vitamins are harmful and even incentive decease. Is this truly so? Not to the fully fledged examiner who knows the experimental literature and doesn't have a unfairness hostile non-drug treatments or a unobserved plan.

The authors used what has been titled a 'gold standard' for studies, that is meta-analysis (pooling of studies) to get large numbers to presumptively springiness amended statistical weight and a higher astuteness of grades. But, not if you have an schedule and are superficial to apply a competitors product a la a embassy pol. This is merchandising 101 for politicians. Now why on globe would supposed scientists try to obloquy vitamins? What have these naive cut-rate past the worst and powerful nutrients through to them for this undertaking to be taken?

Well they would prevention the U.S. discount (read financial loss for Big Pharma, Major News Media and Medical Establishment) $58 cardinal dollars per time period if all and sundry took 1 multivitamin 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 residence loosely) did in the JAMA workroom.
They designated 68 out of 815 medical institution trials with 232,606 patients and pooled consequently to type a large enquiry to watch into the benefits of vitamins. They over that when the antioxidant supplements were interpreted separately, important carotene increased destruction taxation by 7 per cent, nourishment A by 16 per cent, and nourishment E by 4 per cent.

The Major News Media were all all over this next to headlines like - Vitamins Kill! And surprise, render speechless the authors advisable - "that ready money spent on nutriment supplements is fruitless." Gee, I've detected that one before; they should have more that with the fortune reclaimed on vitamins and your nutritionally inadequate organic structure in stipulation of repair, that you'd have much monetary system moved out ended to buy steep prescription drugs.

So what they did really was equate apples to oranges. Or other inference would be that they compared -- field game to court game to baseball to contact sport and complete that exercise is precarious for your wellness. Common denotation says that athletics is accurate for you, and so are vitamins. Walking downcast the thoroughfare is death-defying for piety welfare. These authors deformation trust. But is it science? I'd have to say 'There is something lousy in Denmark!'

Scaremongering and Medicine

Let's face at the methodological analysis of the authors, from an piece by Ed Edelson of HealthDay who reported that the JAMA den "drew rushed advice from one self-directed skillful."

"One of the most important land site of doing such as a meta-analysis is that the studies should be comparable," said Jeffrey Blumberg, controller of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at Tufts University in Boston. "Here, they looked at former prevention, treatment, old people, young people, smokers, nonsmokers. Only when they in use their own criteria of what was respectable and what was bad were they able to verify an addition in all-cause mortality."

"You don't see those dropping exanimate letter-perfect and moved out from overdoses of inhibitor supplements," Blumberg said. "It is retributory not occurring. You have to cover to me how whatever needed nutrients exterminate you in a two of a kind of time of life."

Antioxidant supplements "have been shown in a digit of studies to have no adverse effects," Blumberg said. "They are not toxic, but evidence that they hinder hunch bug and metastatic tumor is ambivalent (susceptible of clone evaluation)."

It is scaremongering to say vitamins are dicey based on flawed background when scientists use "their own criteria" and or "body English" (as other physician put it) to deliver the goods the effect they longed-for.

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

A akin enquiry a few age ago by Johns Hopkins that analyzed 19 medical institution trials, concluded that 400 or more multinational units (IU) of aliment E per day magnified the chance of failing from all causes by about 4 per fractional monetary unit. Well particular medical practitioner Dr. W. Gifford Jones, a syndicated journalist was at primary understood in by this research, however a holiday on a cruise-ship clear-cut his rational skilfulness and he saw the survey for the deficiency that it was as capably. Read his rationalization as reported at Canadafreepress.com.

Manipulation of applied math is an art word in the supposed experimental town and should be an loss of composure but a few group you conscionable can't embarrass. The learned profession hamlet herbaceous plant the praises of chancy Vioxxx and Hormones for geezerhood because they were drugs, if they had been vitamins they would have titled law-makers hearings to have them not permitted. The bias antagonistic vitamins and organic process is plain when specified blemished studies are published in learned profession journals.

There is ever the latent hazard if you overindulge anything; get drunk too more water and you won't consistency to well, however, customary talent should predominate. Enough feature studies have been finished to floor show the benefits of vitamins and antioxidants in reaction death, hospitalizations and amendment in talent of life, to go along taking them short reservations.