Vitamins are deadly! ...and other nonsense you will hear in the mainstream press

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Vitami. MedicalConspiracies@googlegrons are deadly! ...and other nonsense you

will hear in the mainstream press

by the Health Ranger (Mike Adams)

 

http://www.newstarget.com/001966.html

 

A new wave of anti-vitamin hysteria is making waves in newspapers, magazines

and news networks around the world. You have may have seen some of the headlines

that say things like, " Deadly side effects of vitamins, " and imply that vitamins

will kill you. Many conventional doctors and critics of nutrition are jumping on

the bandwagon with this one, coming up with all sorts of distorted headlines

that gleefully claim people are not just wasting their money by taking vitamins,

but they're actually killing themselves by doing so. According to the reports,

this is all based on a scientific study that proves vitamins kill you. But let's

take a closer look at the real story here, and find out why there is so much

distortion going on, and what the study results actually say.

First of all, realize there are several steps of distortions taking place here.

What you're reading in the press is " ...all nutritional supplements will

increase your rate of mortality. " That is such a broad and distorted statement

as to be laughable. A slightly more accurate statement, but still highly

distorted, would be that vitamins, not all nutritional supplements, are

increasing the mortality rate -- that is, vitamins only.

 

Now you see, most people don't distinguish between vitamins and nutritional

supplements. To most consumers, minerals like calcium and magnesium are also

considered vitamins. But in the study there were certain vitamin chemicals that

were studied, not other nutritional supplements, such as mineral supplements or

superfood supplements.

 

But in reality, the study isn't even saying that vitamins are going to kill you

in the first place. The study was conducted only on cancer patients, so the

conclusion that was drawn really only indicated a slightly increased death rate

among cancer patients, not among the entire population. Furthermore, it wasn't

all vitamins, it was only certain vitamins; that is, a combination of vitamins A

and E increased the death rate very slightly among certain cancer patients.

 

Finally, a critical review of these studies indicates that the vitamins actually

studied here were almost universally synthetic vitamins, meaning they weren't

actually natural vitamins at all. These are man-made chemicals that don't appear

in nature. This is especially true of vitamin E, which, in its synthetic form,

has the opposite molecular structure of natural vitamin E.

 

So, the correct statement here is that, " Synthetic chemicals were found to

slightly increase the death rate among certain cancer patients. " That is the

conclusion of this study. It is such a weak conclusion, in fact, that the very

authors of the study said there was " no convincing proof of hazard " for taking

vitamin supplements. They also pointed out that the conclusions drawn from this

study were of borderline statistical significance, and that many more studies

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