Most Vitamin Studies are Worthless

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Most Vitamin Studies are Worthless

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Sunday, April 30, 2006

 

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Most Vitamin Studies are Worthless

 

 

There seems to be a relentless flow of studies that show that vitamin C

supplementation is of little or no value. Tara Parker-Pope writes for

the Health section of the Wall Street Journal. Her recent article on the

value of supplementation took front-page honors. She dismisses vitamin

supplementation altogether as unnecessary. How could all this research

be wrong and just a few of us be right about the value of vitamin C? It

would seem to defy common sense. The answer is very simple and entirely

consistent with the reported studies. The answer is dose.

 

The vast majority of vitamin studies use doses that are inadequate to

produce positive results. It is my opinion that whenever a study

concerning vitamin C uses a daily dose of less than 1000 milligrams, that

study is worthless (or even worse than worthless since the results are so

misleading). If the purpose of the study is to determine vitamin C’s

potential for curing anything, then the minimum dose needs to be many

times higher. To emphasize this, I now report on a fictitious study:

 

Money Doesn’t Ease Poverty, Study Shows

 

This is the finding of the Institute for Eliminating Poverty that has

just released the results of their five-year, peer-reviewed, study of

money and poverty. The study and its results, while provocative, pass

scientific muster and must, therefore, be considered definitive. Here are

the details of the study process.

 

A randomized double-blind controlled study of 1000 families at or below

the poverty line were each given $100. After a closely-followed

five-year period no more of these families had bettered their financial

circumstances than 500 matched control families. This study, while

controversial in its bold conclusions, demonstrates that a lack of

money is not

at the root of poverty. The designers admit that the results surprised

them, but stand by their rigorous scientific method. When asked what, if

not more money, was the key to raising people out of poverty, the lead

researcher responded “beats me!â€

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