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A new inspection published February 28, 2007 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) contends vitamins are unreliable and even result in disappearance. Is this genuinely so? Not to the older investigator who knows the knowledge domain writing and doesn't have a leaning resistant non-drug treatments or a unnoticed plan.

The authors used what has been named a 'gold standard' for studies, that is meta-analysis (pooling of studies) to get bigger book to presumably bestow better statistical application and a higher elucidation of results. But, not if you have an docket and are superficial to defile a competitors merchandise a la a political politico. This is selling 101 for politicians. Now why on world would questionable scientists try to apply vitamins? What have these not guilty not expensive out of danger and efficient nutrients through with to them for this act to be taken?

Well they would liberate the U.S. economic system (read financial loss for Big Pharma, Major News Media and Medical Establishment) $58 a billion dollars per yr if each person took 1 vitamin pill per day unsocial. This is reported 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 loosely) did in the JAMA gain knowledge of.
They preferred 68 out of 815 medical institution trials beside 232,606 patients and pooled later to be a large search to face into the benefits of vitamins. They finished that when the inhibitor supplements were interpreted separately, of import provitamin a augmented release tax by 7 per cent, vitamin A by 16 per cent, and alimentation E by 4 per cent.

The Major News Media were all done this next to headlines like - Vitamins Kill! And surprise, gobsmack the authors advisable - "that resources worn-out on alimentation supplements is emaciated." Gee, I've heard that one before; they should have adscititious that beside the exchange ransomed on vitamins and your nutritionally not good enough physical structure in status of repair, that you'd have much notes gone over and done with to buy pricey prescription drugs.

So what they did genuinely was alikeness apples to oranges. Or another illation would be that they compared -- field game to basketball to ball to field game and concluded that exercise is death-defying for your condition. Common cognisance says that athletics is devout for you, and so are vitamins. Walking downfield the highway is chancy for good benefit. These authors strain trustfulness. But is it science? I'd have to say 'There is something stinky in Denmark!'

Scaremongering and Medicine

Let's facade at the epistemology of the authors, from an nonfictional prose by Ed Edelson of HealthDay who reported that the JAMA study "drew high-speed criticism from one self-reliant specialized."

"One of the trunk site of doing such a meta-analysis is that the studies should be comparable," aforementioned Jeffrey Blumberg, regulator of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at Tufts University in Boston. "Here, they looked at opening prevention, treatment, old people, puppyish people, smokers, nonsmokers. Only when they nearly new their own criteria of what was best and what was bad were they competent to put on view an loudening in all-cause impermanency."

"You don't see people falling slain precise and gone from overdoses of antioxidant supplements," Blumberg aforementioned. "It is vindicatory not arranged. You have to notify to me how whichever obligatory nutrients eradicate you in a duo of old age."

Antioxidant supplements "have been shown in a figure of studies to have no harmful effects," Blumberg same. "They are not toxic, but corroboration that they preclude hunch sickness and cancer is forked (susceptible of lookalike interpretation)."

It is scaremongering to say vitamins are dicey supported on blemished accumulation when scientists use "their own criteria" and or "body English" (as different md put it) to deliver the goods the result they longed-for.

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

A the same cram a few eld ago by Johns Hopkins that analyzed 19 medical institution trials, complete that 400 or much multi-ethnic units (IU) of victuals E per day increased the jeopardy of at death's door from all causes by active iv per rupee. Well set doc Dr. W. Gifford Jones, a syndicated journalist was at original taken in by this research, nevertheless a leisure time on a cruise-ship unwooded his reasoning expertise and he saw the search for the weakness that it was as healthy. Read his narrative as reported at Canadafreepress.com.

Manipulation of statistics is an art comprise in the alleged solid free and should be an unease but several population you in recent times can't discompose. The medical alliance sang the praises of chancy Vioxxx and Hormones for old age because they were drugs, if they had been vitamins they would have titled law-makers hearings to have them not permitted. The intolerance against vitamins and organic process is plain when specified flawed studies are published in learned profession journals.

There is e'er the eventual risk if you gorge anything; paint the town red too by a long chalk marine and you won't discern to well, however, rampant suffer should rule. Enough characteristic studies have been through with to show the benefits of vitamins and antioxidants in chemical reaction death, hospitalizations and advancement in superior of life, to go on fetching them minus reservations.