Are you bleeping kidding me???!!

[Pheisty]

Bill- If I believed for one second that the food I buy at the grocery store actually contains the percentages of nutrients they claim, then I could design a diet that would fulfill my family's nutritional needs. But the soil that corporate farms grow in is deprived and depleted of micronutrients, the produce and meat we consume is covered with and/or injected with pesticides, hormones and chemical fertilizers- I don't trust our nations food supply. I grow an organic garden at home but it cannot supply me with all the food we need....so I take a multivitamin to make up the deficit. I can feel the difference in my body when I take it and when I don't, that tells me it's working. I don't need a study or my government to tell me what is good for me and what is not. I just have to listen to my body and be honest with myself.

Dee, I like you.

 

[Vocalek]

There are loads of studies showing that this nutrient or that one has no effect (or a bad effect) on this, that, or the other thing. However, there are plenty of studies showing some positive effects.

Just this morning there was a short article in the Washington Post Health section on anemia in older folks. The article stated that a shortage of Vitamin B12 was often the problem, and that some people cannot absorb enough B12 from their food, but can do so from supplements.

Other examples:

Davis PA, Yokoyama W. Cinnamon intake lowers fasting blood glucose: meta-analysis. J Med Food. 2011 Sep;14(9):884-9. Epub 2011 Apr 11. Cinnamon intake lowers fasting blood glucose: met... [J Med Food. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI

Cinnamon intake, either as whole cinnamon or as cinnamon extract, results in a statistically significant lowering in FBG (-0.49±0.2 mmol/L; n=8, P=.025) and intake of cinnamon extract only also lowered FBG (-0.48 mmol/L±0.17; n=5, P=.008). Thus cinnamon extract and/or cinnamon improves FBG in people with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes.

(FBG = Fasting blood glucose).

Walter RB, Brasky TM, Milano F, White E.Vitamin, Mineral, and Specialty Supplements and Risk of Hematologic Malignancies in the Prospective VITamins And Lifestyle (VITAL) Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Oct;20(10):2298-308. Epub 2011 Jul 29. Vitamin, Mineral, and Speci... [Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI

CONCLUSIONS: These data indicate that the use of garlic and grape seed may be associated with reduced risk of hematologic malignancies. Impact: This is the first cohort study to suggest a possible role of these supplements in the chemoprevention of hematologic malignancies.

And of course I have been taking two 500-mg tabs of Slo-Niacin per day for about 10 years to control cholesterol (150 tabs for $17.99 at Amazon) The Big Pharma version is a prescription drug called Niaspan. It contains 500 mg of niacin and costs $462 for 150 tabs at drugstore.com

So yes, I could see where Big Pharma does have a motive to get rid of supplements as competition.

The point being that regardless of the mortality figures observed in this group of Iowa women, there is research showing positive effects of some nutrients on some conditions.

 

[Vap0rJay]

Of course they want to get rid of anything naturally occurring... I'm actually surprised they allow "natural" water in beverages vs lab created h2O - "synthetic" water rofl...

No joke, the powers that be will not be happy until everything you consume is chemical. Just look at the ingrediets for Aldi lemonaide...
filtered water, citric acid, potassium citrate, sodium hexametaphosphate, gum acacia, sucralose,sucrose acetate isobutyrate, natural flavor, acesulfame potassium, calcium disodium edta and yellow 5.

Last I checked the ingrediets for lemonade were water, lemon juice, and sugar?

It's scary.

 

[DaveP]

Of course they want to get rid of anything naturally occurring... I'm actually surprised they allow "natural" water in beverages vs lab created h2O - "synthetic" water rofl...

No joke, the powers that be will not be happy until everything you consume is chemical. Just look at the ingrediets for Aldi lemonaide...
filtered water, citric acid, potassium citrate, sodium hexametaphosphate, gum acacia, sucralose,sucrose acetate isobutyrate, natural flavor, acesulfame potassium, calcium disodium edta and yellow 5.

Last I checked the ingrediets for lemonade were water, lemon juice, and sugar?

It's scary.

Water could be listed as Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O)

Don't you wish they'd get off the technical explanations for everyday chemicals?

Top 15 chemical additives in your food