Posts Tagged ‘multivitamin’

The “medical experts” have recently decided once and for all that multivitamins are simply worthless and possibly even harmful. The press keenly publishes their opinions, but any positive study that validates the worth of supplements is hardly acknowledged.

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The multivitamin is not intended to be a magic pill to good health, because it simply cannot replicate all of the benefits …

By Dr. Scott Saunders, M.D.

Heather was only in her fifties, but had already had several broken bones.  These came from relatively minor incidents, such as a trip and fall while hiking.  Her bone scan revealed low calcium in her bones, making them weak and easily broken.

In the past, poor bone mineralization was known as “Rickets” and the cure was discovered a hundred years ago – Vitamin D.  Now, we call the same problem “osteoporosis” and nobody thinks of …

Nutritional supplementation is now a multibillion-dollar industry, and more than half of all US adults take supplements.

Interesting that the US is not even close to the healthiest nation in the world.

Supplement use is fueled in part by the belief that nutritional supplements can ward off chronic disease, including cancer, although several expert committees and organizations have concluded that there is little to NO scientific evidence that supplements reduce cancer risk or other disease.

To the contrary, …

By Underground Health Reporter

It is convenient to believe that a pill will solve all of our nutritional needs – without further thought.

In the United States more than 50% of the adult population take some form of vitamin, mineral or herb supplement regularly.

While some deficiencies can be corrected with vitamins – such as increasing your vitamin D intake with a supplement during the winter months – many fake multivitamins have been proven ineffective.  A waste of your …

About a year ago, ABC news aired a news segment stating that vitamins are not good for your health.  They cited a study that concluded that vitamins cause earlier deaths.  Supplement sales dropped and people began to call me, concerned that what they were taking might hurt them. However, Dr. Katz of Yale’s research prevention center later stated that the study ABC news had mentioned was merely observational and could not prove cause or effect.

How Much is Too …