A Vitamin a Day May Do More Harm Than Good

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A Vitamin a Day May Do More Harm Than Good

 

Excerpts from MSNBC.com

 

January 19, 2007

 

If you are banking on a daily vitamin to make up for any

deficiencies in your diet, you may be getting a whole lot more-or

less-than you bargained for.

 

Of 21 brands of multivitamins on the market in the United States and

Canada selected by ConsumerLab.com and tested by independent

laboratories, just 10 met the stated claims on their label or

satisfied other quality standards.

 

Most worrisome, is that one product, The Vitamin Shoppe

Multivitamins Especially for Women, was contaminated with lead.

 

I was definitely shocked by the amount of lead in this product,

ConsumerLab.coms Dr. Tod Cooperman stated. Weve never seen that

much lead in a multivitamin before.

 

Other products contained more or less of a particular vitamin than

listed on the label. Some did not dissolve in the correct amount of

time, meaning they could pass through the body without being

absorbed.

 

ConsumerLab.com independently evaluates hundreds of health &

nutrition products and periodically publishes reviews. In the news

report, released to MSNBC.com, the company purchased a selection of

the popular multivitamins on the market as well as some smaller

brands and sent them, without labels, to two independent

laboratories to be tested.

 

I think this confirms the advice often given: You are safer choosing

a well-known brand of vitamins sold by some company that you have

confidence in.

 

In the reports, tests show that the Vitamin Shoppe womens product

contained 15.3 micrograms of lead per daily serving of two tablets.

This same product also contained just 54% of the 200 milligrams of

Calcium listed on the label.

 

This amount of lead is more than 10 times the amount permitted

without a warning in California. This mineral is stored in the body

and could build up over time.

 

I would be concerned about a woman taking a multivitamin that

contains 15.3 micrograms of lead per daily serving, stated Judy

Simon, a dietician at the University of Washington Medical Center in

Seattle. Among other health effects, lead can contribute to high

blood pressure.

 

ConsumerLab.com also found that Hero Nutritional Yummi Bears, a

multivitamin for children, had an extra 216% of the labeled amount

of vitamin A, delivering 5,400 International Units in a daily

serving. Thats substantially more than the tolerable level of 2,000

IU for kids ages 1-3 and 3,000 for kids 4-8.

 

Because too much vitamin A can cause bone weakening and liver

abnormalities, the Yummi Bears could be doing more harm than good.

Vitamin A is one of those vitamins you dont want to get too much

of,Dr.Cooperman noted.

 

The lead and Vitamin A findings are worrisome because vitamins are

generally taken every day, potentially building up to toxic levels

and leading to problems down the line. In particular, women with

high levels of lead in their bodies who get pregnant could pass on

problems to a fetus.

 

The ConsumerLab.com report also found that some vitamins did not

break apart within the 30-minute standard set by the United States

Pharmacopia. Natures Plus Especially Yours for women required more

than an hour to disintegrate, while AARP Maturity Formula took 50

minutes.

 

These products could go through your body without releasing the

nutrients.

 

In other findings, Eniva VIBE, a liquid multivitamin sold in

packets, had only 54% of the claimed Vitamin A.

[Guest guest]

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On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:09 AM, Stan Crane wrote:

 

> I have .pdf brochure that I can eMail privately to anyone interested,

> published for healthcare professionals by a Continuing Medical

> Education

> (CME) company that makes comparisons of some of the best and most

> popular

> multi-Vitamin/mineral/phytonutrient supplements on the market using

> the most

> recent and advanced 'third-generation' standards. It compares label

> claims,

> standardized components claims and plant-sourced claims (the most

> efficacious, bio-available form). It also describes what all the

> standards

> mean so one can evaluate a product independently.

>

> Stan Crane

>

> 1-303-360-0100

>

> <stancrane

> stancrane

>

>

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