Are Multivitamins Safe?

Thanks!

The whole multivitamin industry is a scam based on dubious "health science".

Look up any reputable medical website and you'll find that a reasonably balanced diet will provide all the vitamins and minerals you need. There's no reason, apart from rare metabolic disorders, that anyone needs multivitamins.

Check for yourself, is there a statistically significant difference between pill poppers and normal people in the disease or mortality tables? If there was, the insurance companies would insist you take them.

If you're actually concerned for your health, eat a wide range of different foods, don't eat too much fat, oil or protein and cook it yourself.

More often than not people use the vitamins because they don't eat a balanced meal more than once or twice a week.

But if concerned one should steer clear of the multi-vitamins as a rule of thumb, because often is more marketing than medical driven.

I would rather suggest that one should get vitamins from direct sources such as foods instead of consuming such pills.

Does anyone recommend Turmeric spice supplements or concentrated Curcumin for inflammation?

Turmeric

Curcumin

Hi Markar,

I use "turmeric" in every meal I cook and in goat yogourt. Also, I can tell you that I don't have inflammation or stomach problems.

We are lucky to have WIKIPEDIA to inform us about natural products from all around the world. I hope EPA doesn't stop them to tell us the benefactor of these natural products.

Choice about pills, natural products, food we eat, and vitamin supplements is very personal. You have to understand each of them and their action on the human body. Just follow others advise is not a good solution. You need to know what to take and why, Gil.

Hi markar,

"Does anyone recommend Turmeric spice supplements or concentrated Curcumin for inflammation?"

Try out my shared document on Herbs & Supplements, and another of my shared documents on Vitamins & Minerals. Note that the recommendations are not my recommendations, they are from the author(s) of the book(s) I read to get this information.

-S

I read an article in a Russian magzine "Sputnik" in 1960s in which a research Nutritionist declared of consuming Vitas may be dangerous and its bad effects are more than good unless prescribed by a specialist in Medicine.

Another article:

http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2240688

medical examiner

The Vita Myth

Do supplements really do any good?

By Emily Anthes
Posted Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010, at 12:31 PM ET

is worth reading.

Not only Vitas but "Food Supplements" are also dangerous if not recommended a valid Nutritionist [Not the tout of Manufacturers/ Merchantdisers.

These are specially more dangerous for children in my view.

Hi Haajee,

I am not here to tell you what you try to tell us is wrong but I don't believe in papers made by doctors. Every recommendations are promotional for pharmaceuticals. Don't forget, it's big business! When you are old, consult your doctor and use CELEBREX! They will tell us that nothing is good except what they suggest to us.

Someone told that multi-vitamins are containing "lead". How many "EPA approved" medications killed hundreds before taken off the market? Remember, human body know how to handle natural products like lettuce, tomatoes, and similar. Our body don't have any information about man-made, synthetic, and complex molecules, so she/he cannot use it safely.

Yes, every text worth reading but we must learn what is good and what is unsafe. When someone get pills from a doc, this someone get later another pills to hide the bad from the first. I took my last "Aspirin" over 45 years ago!!! I never have a headache! It's your life style gives you health or trouble.

I take vitamins for over 20 years and I am thankful to follow Linus Pauling free recommendations.

I am not recommending multi-vitamins intake but you need vitamin supplement because our modern life don't supply enough through food we eat, Gil.

Rgards.

I agree fully to your comments.

I am over 76 now & have some oldage gifts of nature @ this age & was using CELEBREX! [ in another name CELEBEX] for OA both knees for last 15 years & have no such after effeccts mntioned in its croucher; but my son [I am on visit to him in UK] warned me not to use it as it is under fire of some agencies. I search the web and a lot of stuff is there.

But without medication it is difficult & nobody can suggest any safe alternate to it.

It is true that most of the physicians are playing the game of pharmaceuticals as have pointed out.

Once upon a time there were Pure Food in the old world in 19/20th century;

"The Golden Pure-Food Era".

There is a quote in Bharat/Bangladesh/Pakstan sub-continents' languages:

"Want to die by poision, but pure is not available"

Fast Food, Processed; has totally replaced all over the world & Developed Countries are extracting "Green-Fuel" from grains and billions of people are dying with hunger or mal-nutrition.

And so called Doctors prescribing promotional-pharmaceuticals products.

It is a long story like "1001 Arabian Nights" and all in command are enjoying their business.

There was a hue & cry about the "End of World". God knows when it is due.

From 2012 they have delayed till 2040 or so ...

Hi Haajee,

I agree with your comment but we, everyone on this Earth, we have to decide what is good and what is bad for us. Everyone must stop to dream about money, oil from corn and other soyabeans. It's just a way to make rich the few who already are in commending position. They are telling us what to do, including to you, to your family and around, and we do it. Again, it's our decision!

Why do farmers in developping countries accept to sell what they have to eat? At the same time, they accept to die with the little money in their pocket they get for the food they sold. Isn't it ridiculous? It happens daily! It's their decision!

The fast food business is florishing because we eat fast food. I cook what I want to eat. Do the same! Also, we don't need medications, except in ultimate situations. So, wait until we need it. Why we don't wait to those moments?

Finally, we have to accept the facts the we open businesses because we have customers! It's not a joke, it's reality, Gil.

Hi Haajee,

After my understanding, we have two different supplements. One is food and the other is vitamins.

I am against food supplements because it indicates that you are not eating the right way. You don't eat all kind of veggies giving vitamins and fibers, carbohydrates as pasta and bread or rice, and some animal meats to supply proteins. Human body needs from all three to maintain ability to supply energy to move, think, do, have reflex for everything, and other daily activities. When we eat the uncorrect way, we lack of energy or other to achieve what we want to do. So, eat well is the most important. In plus, after a certain period of bad eating, we get sick, and you're set to go forth and back to the doctor's office to get the message and corrections.

Many food supplements contains additives as synthetic chemicals, processed and/or modified natural ingredients, some unknown proteins, and preservatives. We are treated as cow to be bigger, fatter, and faster. Many hormon treated cow were eliminated before they reached our tables, and many hormon user man and woman are sick or already left from us.

Vitamin supplements are necessary in modern life. We are inside more often than out on the Suny day, moving less, and the worst, we eat faster than before. All these debalanced important daily activities create some deficiencies, and the most often inadequate vitamins inputs. "To get back to normal" as said by advertisings, you have to take some vitamins as suppleents to balance to the level we need.

The decision is ours to get what we should take or not, Gil.

You will find the information in this related thread very interesting:

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/52041#newcomments