Globe and government $ay why bother?
"Studies question the effectiveness of multivitamins; No definitive gains shown in lowering heart disease risk" by Lauran Neergaard | Associated Press, December 17, 2013
WASHINGTON — There’s more disappointing news about multivitamins: Two major studies found popping the pills didn’t protect aging men’s brains or help heart attack survivors.
Now let me give you some pre$cription pharmaceuticals that will take care of all your $ypmtoms, and then we will deal with the $ide effects later.
Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on vitamin combinations, presumably to boost their health and fill gaps in their diets. But while people who don’t eat enough of certain nutrients may be urged to get them in pill form, the government doesn’t recommend routine vitamin supplementation as a way to prevent chronic diseases.
All the more reason to take them. It's almost as if they want you to be sick (so you have to acce$$ the horrid Obummercare crafted by in$urers).
The studies released Monday are the latest to test if multivitamins might go that extra step and concluded that they don’t.
“Evidence is sufficient to advise against routine supplementation,” said a sharply worded editorial that accompanied Monday’s findings in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. After all, most people who buy multivitamins and other supplements are generally healthy, said journal deputy editor Dr. Cynthia Mulrow. Even junk foods often are fortified with vitamins, while the main nutrition problem in the United States is too much fat and calories, she added.
I'm sorry, I didn't hear that last bit because of the crunch of the potato chips and exhale of the liter of soda I just bore into this world.
Junk food, vitamin pills, it's all the same?
Something sure coming out of the Anals of Medicine(?), all right, and it doesn't $mell too good.
But other researchers say the jury’s still out, especially for the country’s most commonly used dietary supplement — multivitamins that are taken by about a third of US adults, and even more people over the age of 50.
Get outta that bathroom, man!
Indeed, the US Preventive Services Task Force is deliberating whether vitamin supplements make any difference in the average person’s risk of heart disease or cancer.
In a draft proposal last month, the government advisory group said for standard multivitamins and certain other nutrients, there’s not enough evidence to tell. (It cautioned that two single supplements, beta-carotene and vitamin E, didn’t work). A final decision is expected next year.
(Blog editor responded by waving his hand, sputtering the word this twice, and is just speechless at the juxtaposition of government and evidence, as if one ever had anything to do with the other after all we have seen over all these years, the never-ending lies about.... everything! Sorry, but they have forfeited any claim to truth or trustworthiness. It's there own fault. Need to come completely clean, and I don't see that happening even if they found the soap)
“For better or for worse, supplementation’s not going to go away,” said Dr. Howard Sesso of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He helps lead a large multivitamin study that has had mixed results — suggesting small benefits for some health conditions but not others — and says more research is needed, especially among the less healthy.
Still, “there’s no substitute for preaching a healthy diet and good behaviors” such as exercise, Sesso cautioned.
So there is really nothing new here, huh? And a healthy diet is what, full of vitamins and stuff?
Multivitamins have grown more popular in recent years as research showed that taking high doses of single supplements could be risky, such as beta-carotene.
Life's a risk.
Multivitamins typically contain no more than 100 percent of the daily recommended amount of various nutrients. They’re marketed as sort of a safety net for nutrition gaps; the industry’s Council for Responsible Nutrition says they’re taken largely for general wellness.
With Alzheimer’s on the rise as the population ages, Harvard researchers wondered if long-term multivitamin use might help keep older brains agile.
After a decade of pill use, the vitamin-takers fared no better on memory or other cognitive tests, Sesso’s team reported Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.
--more--"
Time for a well-balanced lunch with all the food groups represented: growth-hormone and antibiotic treated meat in a sandwich (meat and grains, covered), chemically-sprayed and corporately-bagged salad and chips (the vegetable portion, check), and a piece of dutch apple pie with ice cream (the fruit and dairy parts of the pyramid) to finish it off. It's what we call a healthy lunch around here, and the scale shows it.
Now if you will excuse me, I need to go take my vitamin supplements with whatever poisons are in the water.
