I dare say many of you will have read much of the misinformed nonsense written in recent print media world-wide about the potential harm of vitamins but not much has been written in reply, giving the counter arguments and disputing the interpretations of the studies, or questioning the sponsorship of such studies.
In a earlier post I mentioned that last year the Chief Coroner in New Zealand had queried similar negative reports about the dangers of vitamins to human health and had been inspired to conduct a review of all recorded deaths, nation-wide. As I recall from media reports, he could not find any incidence of vitamins, or other such supplements, being the cause, or a major contributor, of a death.
Another cause of some concern is bleating from the medical profession contesting the benefits of supplements which they say are untried and untested. (Ignoring the past hundred years or so and in the case of some, herbs especially, thousands of years).
The medical profession talk of the well tested, credible, and strictly regulated drugs and pharmaceuticals used by doctors’ but that dubious claim appears to have been refuted in a recent Brisbane Courier report, wherein professor Kelman from the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, is quoted as saying “The current system for evaluating drug safety is outdated”.
It seems that currently, new medicines are judged solely on pre-marketing trials and on doctors’ adverse finding reports. Experts have warned that all new drugs should carry warning labels as part of an overhaul of Australia’s “archaic” monitoring system for new medications.
Professor Kelman is quoted as saying Australia has fallen behind the rest of the world in this matter, and that “Trials usually last no more than 12 months, so do not evaluate the increasingly common long-term use of medicines by patients with chronic disorders.”
Gents, we must counter the pharmaceutically-biased, misinformed, misinterpreted and often, drug company sponsored, studies condemning vitamins and let the truth be know. We can best do this by being well informed ourselves, fully armed with apposing argument. I have recently found a brilliant web site that most ably presents the total picture and which appears to have all the ammunition we need. CLICK on the link below…
For a wealth of information on this issue, go to:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/safety.html
See also: http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/index.shtml
