Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Studies suggest it’s time to kick the multivitamin habit because it could cause some harm…say what?

Don’t you just love it? After all these years of stuffing down daily supplements (some the size of horse pills) just to be on the safe side scientists say we’ve been wasting our time! I don’t want to think about how much money I’ve spent on those little helpers over the years. It appears I might as well have wadded my money up into little balls, soaked them in gasoline, and then lit each one on fire. At least that would have been entertaining.

Moving on…

Daily supplements don't help prevent disease and may actually cause some harm

Excerpt:

“But today, a tsunami of scientific data has resulted in a reversal in thinking among many experts in the health and nutrition community, including Miriam Nelson, PhD, director of the John Hancock Research Center on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity at Tufts University. "The multivitamin as insurance policy is an old wives' tale, and we need to debunk it," she says.”

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