Interesting article on supplements and vitamins

[ofthearth]

News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins

The best efforts of the scientific community to prove the health benefits of vitamins keep falling short.




http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/1...r-vitamins/?em

[Brushy Sage]

Note that most of these are single studies. Although they might have data from many participants, they do not cancel out other studies that have yielded different data. The researchers have a legitimate interest in getting their conclusions published and distributed; that does not mean, though, that their results are automatically accepted by the wider scientific community.

[take-a-knee]

News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins

The best efforts of the scientific community to prove the health benefits of vitamins keep falling short.




http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/1...r-vitamins/?em

Total BS, if you follow the money you'll find that most of those studies were paid for with drug company money, they've been trying to force the FDA to shut the supplement industry down for decades.

No one with half a brain believes that fat, non-exercising smokers who pop one or two vitamin supplements are gonna add 20 yrs to their life by doing so. Crossfitters on the Zone Diet however, need quite a bit more micronutrients than the RDA minimums. Think of it like the building code, you do less than the requirement and your building is likely to fail structurally. Building to code means it is only barely adequate, not superlative by any means.

[mudhead]

People that live north of TN should research vitamin D3.

Goes well with a cheese chaser.

[Serial 07]

bs...

[mudhead]

Which part? D or needing fat to absorb it?

[take-a-knee]

Which part? D or needing fat to absorb it?

Vitamins A, D, E, & K are are lipid soluble, that is, if they aren't consumed with fat, they go right through you unabsorbed. North country trappers have died from what was called "rabbit starvation". During a high-cycle period of arctic hares, many would eat only those for meat. They would often die during the winter even though they were not calorie deficient. vitamin D3 is essential for health and the best way to get it is sunshine if at all possible.

[Serial 07]

not you mudhead, the article...sorry...

[ofthearth]

As with most things I post here, the purpose is to learn something through what others might post in response . BS is not to helpful and as often happens just creates more problems.

[T-Dubs]

Vitamins A, D, E, & K are are lipid soluble, that is, if they aren't consumed with fat, they go right through you unabsorbed. North country trappers have died from what was called "rabbit starvation". During a high-cycle period of arctic hares, many would eat only those for meat. They would often die during the winter even though they were not calorie deficient. vitamin D3 is essential for health and the best way to get it is sunshine if at all possible.

Some good info on the site Modern Forager about these fat soluble vitamins.

http://www.modernforager.com/blog/20...-to-find-them/

[mudhead]

vitamin D3 is essential for health and the best way to get it is sunshine if at all possible.

Tough to do with the limited sunshine and the amount of skin exposed of late.

not you mudhead, the article...sorry...

Kind of what I figured. Had to do a layup tease, however.

Good link. Got to go graze some spinach.

[Dogwood]

News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins

The best efforts of the scientific community to prove the health benefits of vitamins keep falling short.




http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/1...r-vitamins/?em

OHH, be careful with this one!!! There is more mis-information, deception, mis-direction, downright lies, and confusion in the areas of health and, particularly, nutrition than you will find at most new car dealerships or in the political arena. No wonder why so many Americans are justifiably shaking their heads as to what to believe about diet and nutrition these days.

Pay careful attention to who did the study, who funded the study, and how the study was conducted. Often, studies are conducted by groups who have a vested interest in a particular outcome. Be careful not to read more into the meaning of the results or interpreting the results by making unproven assumptions. Statistics, whether in the form of political polls or medical studies are, too often, misleading. And, just because someone who is called a professional, belongs to a "professional" association, or has amassed many credentials with lots of capitalized letters after their name is associated with a study that DOES NOT mean they are immune from being incorrect.

Do you remember the days when congressional oversite committees were investigating the effects of cigarette smoking? Medical doctors, and many other "professionals", on the payrolls of cigarette companies, were testifying, and providing as evidence, medical studies, that showed there was no conclusive proof that cigarette smoking was cancer(disease) causing or addictive. I ask U, "how many Americans died(and are still dying) as a direct result of cigarette smoking when many politicians and medical doctors already knew otherwise???.