Health Supreme Update: The vitamin police

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27 Aug 2005 15:36:55 -0000

Health Supreme Update: The vitamin police

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August 27, 2005

 

 

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There are two distinct approaches to vitamins, both with

nuances. One approach sees the main purpose of supplements as

preventing diseases caused by deficiencies, like scurvy,

beriberi and pellagra. The early quasi-official " recommended

daily allowances, " which have been revised only slightly, are

based loosely, without allowance for individual biochemical or

environmental differences, on the amounts of nutrients needed

to prevent deficiencies that lead to deadly diseases.

 

Other researchers, including Linus Pauling (who developed the

concept of " molecular disease " after DNA was discovered),

Denham Harman (the free-radical theory of aging) and Roger

Williams (biochemical and nutritional individuality) began to

develop and test the idea that there might be levels of

nutrients that not only prevented deadly diseases but improved

health and ameliorated the aging process. Since the late 1950s

studies have suggested strongly that the intake of certain

vitamins can reduce the risk of numerous diseases, including

heart disease and cancer.

 

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