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What good is taking a multivitamin every day if you are over fifty and you aren't suffering from a chronic disease?
Well...
According to a new longterm study of 390,000 US'ians that started back in 1993, it would appear that it is good for absolutely nothing:
Well...
According to a new longterm study of 390,000 US'ians that started back in 1993, it would appear that it is good for absolutely nothing:
...Daily multivitamin use was associated with a higher mortality risk compared to non-users (Hazard ratio 1.04, 95% confidence interval 1.02-1.07). That is, mortality was 4% higher among multivitamin users. There were no differences in mortality when looking at heart disease, cancer, and cerebrovascular mortality...
The paper, from a group at the US National Institutes of Health published in JAMA Open Network, is here.
Commentary, quoted from above, is by pharmacist Scott Gavura at Science-Based Medicine.
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Earworm in the header is even more Ron Obvious than usual...
Ron Obvious, the original version?...This!
Ron Obvious, revisited (but not so often recently)?...This!
Of course, it is very likely that we will be quoting RO No2 much more often as the provincial election approaches later in the summer into the fall.
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7 comments:
I remember that song! Sounds as good today as it did then. Great voice. Absolutely nothing, got that right. The only ones who it benefits are the corporations who sell the armaments and gear.
Lots of politicians like it because the voters are looking at the war and not other important issues.
Thanks for the memories.
Eat a green salad, go for a swim in the bay. Kiss a seal good morning...
After a recent health excitement, I have been told to avoid Palm Oil like the plague.
I don’t take daily vitamin supplements —I think my diet is healthy enough to get what I need from the food I eat.
However, many a geezer like me has been prescribed medicines which can interfere with the absorption of certain vitamins and minerals from food. I take so many medicines now that keeping track of individual prescriptions’ effect on vitamin-absorption is fussy enough that I’ve settled, on advice from my pharmacist and doctors, on supplementing vitamins and minerals (mainly the latter) which might have been depleted over time, and on changing the preparation and method of using some of them (proton-pump medicines to lower stomach acid impairs the absorption of, for example, vitamins B12; not only do I supplement this vitamin, I have to use the sublingual preparation because, naturally, since I take pantoprazole daily, my stomach acid isn’t strong enough to dissolve and absorb it; &c).
One can probably get lost in the complexity of digestion so, for me, I take occasional multi-vitamin and mineral supplement just in case the meds I must take have depleted them from optimal levels—and otherwise don’t worry about it. I never take them daily—like Dr Suzuki says: it just makes expensive pee.
Then what are prenatal vitamins for?
Also extreme low?
Vitamin c scurvey
D rickets
Folic acid inpregnacy reduces chance of spinach bifida?
Etc
Anon-Above--
For pre-natal vitamins it's a very different situation. There you're guarding against vitamin deficiencies that are known to occur during pregnancy vs. just taking a bunch of vitamins when there are no known deficiencies.
And, while I presume it was likely an autocorrect issue, , I'm pretty sure you didn't mean 'spinach' bifida.
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I hear you Scotty - and, of course, if there are concerns about identified deficiencies, diagnosed health issues or the pharmaceuticals you are taking, that's a whole different ballgame.
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