Daily Vitamin a bad thing?
I just came across an article on the Journal of the American Medical Association in which they test some supplemental vitamins and antioxidant supplements. The article (from 2007) can be found here:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/297/8/842
From what I gather from this testing, at best, these vitamin supplements have no effect whatsoever, and at worst, could actually INCREASE one’s mortality rate.
My questions are:
1) Is there a similar JAMA study that promotes the use of supplements and/or dispels the findings of this study?
2) Does this study affect your belief that a 1-a-day vitamin is a good thing and "couldn’t hurt?"
Well, I don’t have any scientific studies, but I had a buddy that took vitamins every day for quite a long time… he couldn’t get off of them because his body depended on the vitamins and he couldn’t produce his own vitamin C because his body didn’t do it for a long time.
The article mainly discusses anti-oxidant supplements.
A daily dose of multi-vitamins won’t hurt you, and will make sure you get all of your RDA’s.
Just don’t rely on it in place of a total diet and exercise plan.
You are right on!
Yes, this information is important and yes it affects my idea of what I’m spending my money on. What people don’t understand is to synthesize what is naturally occurring in raw fruits and vegetables is flushing your money down the drain.
Stop eating rocks!
I take whole food vitamin/minerals that are recognized by the body like eating a leaf of the plant. This technology is very cutting edge.
Watch google video on the difference between synthetic (most of what is available) and whole food molecules vitamin/minerals you find in your vine ripened organic raw plant foods.