Fw: No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs

January 19, 2010

For your info.

Melly

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No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs

tita_mel

Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 12:36 PM

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 19, 2010

No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs

Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety

(OMNS, January 19, 2010) There was not even one death caused by a dietary

supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the

U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American

Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical

Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of

the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from

any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal

product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba,

ginseng, kava kava, St. John's wort , valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines,

ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from

creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any

homeopathic remedies.

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement.

This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc,

colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Two children died

as a result of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other

" Electrolyte and Mineral " category death was due to a man accidentally drinking

sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener.

No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period.

61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data

System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS,

the authors write, is " one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in

existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of

exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and

situational awareness tracking. "

Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if

each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000

individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since

many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual

consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is

all the more remarkable.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so " dangerous, " as the FDA and news

media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Those who wonder if the media are biased against vitamins may consider this: how

many television stations, newspapers, magazines, and medical journals have

reported that no one dies from nutritional supplements?

Reference:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008

Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National

Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47,

911-1084. The full text article is available for free download at

http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf . Vitamins statistics

are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and

other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.

For Further Reading:

Download any Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers

from 1983-2008 free of charge at

http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDSPoisonData/AnnualReports/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight

illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and

non-commercial informational resource.

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Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D.

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Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.

Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D.

Erik Paterson, M.D.

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January 19, 2010

Hi Melly

Great site thank you.

P.S. I know about onion with honey 24 hours maceration and then take the micture hourly for Bronhitis, but onion and water ? so could you please axplain how to do it, my brother-inlaws breathing come with hissing noises two and will like to help him.

Hugs Mary

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Melly Bag

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:34 AM

Fw: No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs

For your info.

Melly--- On Tue, 1/19/10, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service <omns (AT) cihfimediaservices (DOT) org> wrote:

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service <omns (AT) cihfimediaservices (DOT) org>No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbstita_mel Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 12:36 PM

This article may be reprinted free of charge provided 1) that there is clear attribution to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, and 2) that both the OMNS free subscription link http://orthomolecular.org/.html and also the OMNS archive link http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml are included.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 19, 2010

No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or HerbsPoison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety

(OMNS, January 19, 2010) There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John's wort , valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Two children died as a result of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other "Electrolyte and Mineral" category death was due to a man accidentally drinking sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener.

No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period.

61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is "one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking."

Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so "dangerous," as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Those who wonder if the media are biased against vitamins may consider this: how many television stations, newspapers, magazines, and medical journals have reported that no one dies from nutritional supplements?

Reference:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47, 911-1084. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf . Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.

For Further Reading:

Download any Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers from 1983-2008 free of charge at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDSPoisonData/AnnualReports/tabid/125/Default.aspx

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.

Editorial Review Board:

Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. Damien Downing, M.D. Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D. Steve Hickey, Ph.D. James A. Jackson, PhD Bo H. Jonsson, MD, Ph.D Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D. Erik Paterson, M.D. Gert E. Shuitemaker, Ph.D.

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D., Editor and contact person. Email: omns (AT) orthomolecular (DOT) org

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January 20, 2010

Melly.

Thank you for the information, i will pass it on to him and yes i hope it will help him, but he must do it.

Hugs Mary

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tita_mel

oleander soup

Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:49 AM

Re: Fw: No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs

Mary,You are most welcome. There are several modes in using onion for cough and cold. We chopped onions put it in a bowl with water and put it on a little end table beside his face when he is in bed. We also tried just putting the onion with no water but that did not work as fast as the one in a bowl with water. No, you don't drink it.Hope this helps your brother in law.Mellyoleander soup , "Maria" <mary1kon wrote:>> Hi Melly> > Great site thank you.> > P.S. I know about onion with honey 24 hours maceration and then take the micture hourly for Bronhitis, but onion and water ? so could you please axplain how to do it, my brother-inlaws breathing come with hissing noises two and will like to help him.> > Hugs Mary> > >