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Old 12-16-2013, 10:34 PM #1
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What do you all think of this CNN article on vitamins and supplements:


http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/16/health...html?hpt=hp_t1


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It is a typical anti-supplement article. These crop up now and then mostly paid for by special interest groups.

What we do here, is enable healing. Multivitamins have always been on the chopping block however.

This article does not state the NIH position that people over 50 should take supplements of B12.

So many of our OTC products now are drugs that were previously on RX only. Many of these actually deplete vitamins and minerals.

No mention of course of that in this article.

Doctors will fixate on this and turn around and prescribe statins to you which are cellular poisons! Or Cipro or Levaquin...when less toxic antibiotics could possibly work instead.
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Interesting article. People who are deficient in a certain vitamin/vitamins should probably supplement with that vitamin/vitamins. Otherwise taking a multivitamin does not make sense. A person needs to know what vitamin they are deficient in. Guess I'm of the few who do not drink coke or other or eat twinkies and the rest of the junk stuff.
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It is a typical anti-supplement article. These crop up now and then mostly paid for by special interest groups.

What we do here, is enable healing. Multivitamins have always been on the chopping block however.

This article does not state the NIH position that people over 50 should take supplements of B12.

So many of our OTC products now are drugs that were previously on RX only. Many of these actually deplete vitamins and minerals.

No mention of course of that in this article.

Doctors will fixate on this and turn around and prescribe statins to you which are cellular poisons! Or Cipro or Levaquin...when less toxic antibiotics could possibly work instead.
Unfortunately some us had to learn this the hard way. ZOCOR
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What do you all think of this CNN article on vitamins and supplements:


http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/16/health...html?hpt=hp_t1


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I don't give much credit to this article. I do think some vitamins are junk. There are many brands that are good. My Naturapathic doctor did a blood test that showed I have a defective gene where I can't convert folic acid to be absorbed by the body. I now take L-5MTHF and vitamin B12 shots.
My mom asked her family doctor about this defective gene and he blew her off and said if she did have it nothing could be done about it. Folic acid deficiency can include: macrocytic, anemia, fatigue, irritability, peripheral neurophy,tendon hyper-reflexivity, restless legs syndrome, diarrhea, weight loss, insomnia, depression, dementia, cognitive disturbances, and psychiatric disorders.
Many conditions are caused and could be treated with vitamins and supplements.
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I agree, people like myself have to supplement with iron. Soon, I begin b12. Maybe if said person is in tip top health, with no issues, it is a waste of money?!..
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I only listen to integrative MD's on this subject, they know about diet and supplements, prevention of illness, etc.
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What do you all think of this CNN article on vitamins and supplements:
It's old news. I agree that people who are healthy with no medical conditions who eat a well-balanced diet, don't drink [excessively] or smoke, and get regular exercise probably don't need to take a multivitamin.

Anyone here meet that description?

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Gladys Block, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at University of California Berkeley, pointed out that the group of men followed in the cognitive study were all physicians with no health problems.

"These are very well-nourished, very health-conscious people," she said.

In fact, she says none of the studies accurately represents the American population.

Block has spent her life studying the role of Vitamin C, in particular, on disease risk factors and says that most Americans are undernourished. She says that most Americans don't have a healthy diet, and therefore don't get the vitamins and minerals they need.

"You're not getting any of these micronutrients from Coke and Twinkies," said Block.

"Two-thirds of us are overweight, a quarter over 50 have two or more chronic conditions, so there's a substantial population that one would hesitate to call healthy."

Block went on to say, "There's always a nontrivial minority that's actually getting a questionable level of some micronutrients. So multivitamins are a backstop against our poor diet."
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It's old news. I agree that people who are healthy with no medical conditions who eat a well-balanced diet, don't drink or smoke, and get regular exercise probably don't need to take a multivitamin.

Anyone here meet that description?

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