"Jan Drew" wrote in message
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Medical community concedes that multivitamins are important for health,
but only after decades of denying benefit from vitamins
by Mike Adams

It only took 38 years for the American Medical Association, old-school
doctors and conservative medical authorities to admit that vitamin
supplements are, in fact, necessary for optimum health.

It is STILL not true that suppplements are needed by well-fed Americans.

The evidence is strong that a good diet is *better* for health than taking
supplements, and that if there is were a need for some Americans to take
vitamins or minerals it bears little correlation to what the vitamin pushers
have been promoting. In all the recent studies where health outcomes have
been related to the vitamin intake from either diet or supplements, the diet
has won suggesting that a good diet has additional qualities. Also
megavitamin therapy a la Pauling or Hoffer has been largely disproved.

So the vitamin promoters have been doing active harm for years by suggesting
that taking supplements can substitute for a poor diet and counteract the
ill effects of smoking.

The opinion of the medical profession was always much closer to the truth,
i.e. that a good diet and other healthy lifetyle choi\ces are far more
important for the health of the average person than taking supplements.

Please stop doing the vitamin pushers advertising.

PM
That's not bad: four decades is moving pretty fast for these slow-thinkers.
Year after year, they were shutting out the hard science proving that
vitamin supplements were important for optimum human health. They attacked
manufacturers of nutritional supplements, ostracized forward-looking
doctors who backed vitamins and minerals, and stuck with their old-school
line of "drugs, surgery and chemotherapy!" Open-minded scientific curiosity
was nowhere to be found.
Astoundingly, some doctors and defenders of old-school western medicine
continue this line of dogma that belongs in the history books, not in
modern medical science. One of the most misinformed yet popular family
doctors continues to call vitamins "quackery," in fact, blatantly denying
decades of undeniable evidence supporting the health benefits of
nutritional supplements.

The question today isn't whether vitamins are helpful, it's more along the
lines of what form of vitamins work best. And here's the short answer:
synthetic vitamins should be avoided. Most cheaper-brand multivitamins are
synthethic. Vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients should always be sourced
from natural plant-based sources. In other words, your multivitamin should
be made from whole foods, not from isolated chemicals that are similar to
plant-based vitamins. Even if they share the exact same molecular
structure, there's a qualitative difference that greatly impacts your
health. This is why I've remained such a strong proponent of superfoods
like spirulina and broccoli sprouts. You'll get more vitamins and minerals
from a daily dose of chlorella and spirulina than from any drug-store
multivitamin.

One thing I'm wondering about in all this is: where is the apology to
vitamin manufacturers? Western medicine was wrong about vitamins, and now
that nutrition is finally starting to take its rightful place in medicine,
somebody owes the makers of nutritional supplements a whole-hearted
apology. And what's with the FDA continuing its war on nutritional
supplements anyway? Hasn't anybody told the agency that vitamins are
actually good for you now?

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