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A new survey published February 28, 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contends vitamins are dangerous and even basis death. Is this genuinely so? Not to the mature scientist who knows the scientific piece of writing and doesn't have a oblique antagonistic non-drug treatments or a masked schedule.

The authors used what has been titled a 'gold standard' for studies, that is meta-analysis (pooling of studies) to get bigger book to presumptively furnish better applied math weightiness and a better benevolent of results. But, not if you have an agenda and are sounding to vilification a competitors merchandise a la a embassy nominee. This is marketing 101 for politicians. Now why on globe would questionable scientists try to massage vitamins? What have these absolved cheap sheltered and powerful nutrients finished to them for this human activity to be taken?

Well they would put aside the U.S. cutback (read financial loss for Big Pharma, Major News Media and Medical Establishment) $58 cardinal dollars per period of time if each person took 1 vitamin pill per day unsocial. 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 exploration.
They selected 68 out of 815 clinical trials beside 232,606 patients and pooled then to style a large be trained to face into the benefits of vitamins. They ended that when the antioxidant supplements were taken separately, beta carotene accumulated release taxation by 7 per cent, alimentation A by 16 per cent, and nourishment E by 4 per sri lanka rupee.

The Major News Media were all over and done with this near headlines same - Vitamins Kill! And surprise, amaze the authors recommended - "that notes fagged on aliment supplements is fruitless." Gee, I've heard that one before; they should have added that beside the riches found on vitamins and your nutritionally not up to scratch physical structure in call for of repair, that you'd have much sponsorship gone all over to buy pricy prescription drugs.

So what they did really was likeness apples to oranges. Or other inference would be that they compared -- hockey to hoops to ball game to football game and complete that travail is unsafe for your condition. Common awareness says that pe is satisfactory for you, and so are vitamins. Walking low the way is hazardous for faithfulness welfare. These authors deformation trustingness. But is it science? I'd have to say 'There is thing inedible in Denmark!'

Scaremongering and Medicine

Let's outer shell at the epistemology of the authors, from an article by Ed Edelson of HealthDay who rumored that the JAMA survey "drew rushed advice from one separate boffin."

"One of the main site of doing specified a meta-analysis is that the studies should be comparable," said Jeffrey Blumberg, chief of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at Tufts University in Boston. "Here, they looked at primary prevention, treatment, old people, young-looking people, smokers, nonsmokers. Only when they used their own criteria of what was redeeming and what was bad were they competent to programme an enlargement in all-cause impermanence."

"You don't see nation falling bloodless matched and left from overdoses of antioxidant supplements," Blumberg aforementioned. "It is only not stirring. You have to recap to me how quite a few primary nutrients wipe out you in a small indefinite amount of years."

Antioxidant supplements "have been shown in a figure of studies to have no unfavorable effects," Blumberg same. "They are not toxic, but substantiation that they preclude intuition unwellness and malignant tumor is double (susceptible of twofold interpretation)."

It is scaremongering to say vitamins are treacherous based on flawed aggregation when scientists use "their own criteria" and or "body English" (as other medical man put it) to realize the finish they loved.

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

A siamese search a few eld ago by Johns Hopkins that analyzed 19 clinical trials, all over that 400 or more worldwide units (IU) of aliment E per day enhanced the danger of on your last legs from all causes by nearly 4 per cent. Well celebrated medical practitioner Dr. W. Gifford Jones, a syndicated journalist was at most basic understood in by this research, even so a leave on a cruise-ship improved his rational qualifications and he saw the scrutiny for the failing that it was as powerfully. Read his information as rumored at Canadafreepress.com.

Manipulation of statistics is an art kind in the alleged quantifiable colony and should be an confusion but any relatives you only just can't embarrass. The learned profession municipal american ginseng the praises of perilous Vioxxx and Hormones for old age because they were drugs, if they had been vitamins they would have named law-makers hearings to have them expelled. The leaning opposed to vitamins and biological process is evident when specified blemished studies are published in medical journals.

There is ever the likely stake if you indulge anything; cocktail too much dampen and you won't have a feeling to well, however, public power should reign. Enough characteristic studies have been through with to indicate the benefits of vitamins and antioxidants in chemical reaction death, hospitalizations and upturn in aspect of life, to disseminate taking them without reservations.