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American diets are deficient. Additionally, the human body’s use of vitamins and minerals is adversely affected by smoking, drinking alcohol in excess, taking birth control pills, breathing polluted air, drinking polluted water, continuous dieting, consumption of denatured foods, medication intake, sleep deprivation and stress. Researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the University of Florida found that "in major medical journals, more pharmaceutical advertising is associated with publishing fewer articles about dietary supplements." Furthermore, they found that more pharmaceutical company advertising resulted in the journal having more articles with "negative conclusions about dietary supplement safety." It seems that pharmaceutical monies buy journal influence. Promoting special interests in the name of good science is wrong. How much evidence does the public need to understand the seriousness of this influence? Do consumers choose to ignore the evidence? Many highly respected professionals, researchers, scientists and practitioners do not buy into the deceptive marketing used to sell food and drugs. The work on nutrients of professionals I have followed for twenty plus years have stood the test of time. Canadian psychiatrist Abram Hoffer, M.D, Ph.D., says: "We all have to work hard to educate the public about the merits of sane treatment for everyone, where the patient is primary, not Big Pharma." Sadly, Dr. Hoffer recently passed away on May 27, 2009 and will be terribly missed. Bo H. Jonsson, M.D., Ph.D., of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, comments, "positive reports about the effects of high-dose vitamins have long been ignored by the medical establishment instead of being further examined scientifically." Orthomolecular scientists, Dr. Andrew Saul says: “Do not be buffaloed and do not be bullied. If someone tries to scare you from taking vitamins, ask to see the scientific papers that they base such a warning on." Assuming that the vitamin critic actually respects you enough to honor your request and produce such documents, go to the following website for tips on how to spot bias: http://www.doctoryourself.com/antivitamin.html If this were 1909 I could see how institutions would be skeptical about vitamins which had not been discovered yet. Even back then, using food as medicine was considered an old wives tale to many professionals, but not to the average citizen who garnered results from its effects. Studies continue to prove how isolated vitamin and minerals (micro nutrients) are used to prevent and treat all kinds of diseases from cancer to heart disease. It is legitimate science despite naysayers trying to discredit it. Dr. Jennifer Lin and her colleagues at Harvard Medical School ought to be ashamed for reporting the worthlessness of vitamins. According to many nutritional experts, Dr. Lin’s data does not support the conclusions of her study! As an example, the dosages used in the study did not equate to a therapeutic dose, one that can yield positive results. Vitamin C in 500 mg. dosages was used every other day, which is barley enough to meet recommended doses, and the participants of the study were hardly compliant. The Institute of Medicine recommends a dietary allowance (RDA) of 90 mgs. for men and 75 mgs. for women of vitamin C per day. This recommendation will barely keep most consumers from getting scurvy, a disease marked by swollen and bleeding gums, skin hemorrhages, prostration, etc., due to a diet lacking in vitamin C. Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) for vitamins and minerals have been prepared by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council since 1941. These guidelines were originally developed to reduce the rates of severe nutritional deficiency diseases such as scurvy, pellagra (deficiency of niacin) and beriberi (deficiency of vitamin B1). RDAs were designed to serve as the basis for evaluating the adequacy of diets of groups of people, not individuals. Individuals differ and consequently have varying nutritional needs. As stated by the Food and Nutrition Board, "Individuals with special nutritional needs are not covered by the RDAs.” I believe these recommendations are outdated. Dr. Steve Hickey, an expert representing the Alliance for Natural Health, criticized the approach used by the Harvard team. He said: “Certain researchers have hit on a cookbook recipe for performing studies, purporting to show that antioxidant vitamins (generally at low doses) are ineffective. In the most recent case, Jennifer Lin and colleagues use this approach to make the unfounded claim that antioxidant vitamins do not prevent cancer.” More disappointing is that media outlets have chosen to promote these untruths which confuse consumers more. Benjamin Franklin said: "If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." Let’s not live up to this truth. Be diligent, remain informed and take your vitamins daily. It’s what the good informed doctor ordered! References: Keeping you “in the know”… URGENT WARNING ABOUT GARDASIL Did you hear what the Health Science Institute in Baltimore, MD has to say about Gardasil, the (sexually transmitted disease) STD vaccine administered to young girls under the guise protecting them from cervical cancer? See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msoyRYSoSJk Do your homework before making medical decisions. Those who have been following my website for the past 7 years know how dollars trump good science and safety. Don’t be fooled by drug companies claiming their products are safe because they have been approved by the FDA. Daily, there are drugs removed from the marketplace due to illness and death. Do not become a statistic! Using our children as human experiments will have unintended consequences that are unlikely to be reversible. In the News Blatant Hypocrisy In the journal Pediatrics scientists reported that women who take enough B12 and folic acid before they become pregnant can dramatically cut their risk of having a baby with a serious birth defect of the brain and spinal cord. Can another vitamin, B6 be so much more dangerous? Hardly. The FDA has banned a natural form of the B6 vitamin called pyradoxamine (pyridoxamine dihydrochloride What’s next? Will they ban fish, chicken and brewer’s yeast? All contain pyridoxamine. Drug companies want to monopolize it, patent it (destroy its natural form) and profit from it. They are being assisted by the drug friendly FDA. They fear the natural supplement will cut into their drug profits. The FDA claims to protect you from drugs and foods, yet hundred of thousands of consumers become ill and are dying from the use of drugs and toxic foods. This news may mean that any combination of supplements containing Vitamin B6 can be declared illegal by the FDA. This is another way of destroying competition from use of natural supplements that restore health and vitality. Use common sense. Drugs are produced for profits, not to improve the health of consumers.
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