Vitamins Do Older Women Little Good

vitimines

What utter nonsence! Many people cannot afford to eat an organic type lifetsyle as many of these so called experts live.The lack of supplements will cause untold suffering and death to many having to eat and drink contaminated food and water every day of thier lives.I am talking about the West not some third world nation! The additives that are pumped into our foods and the POISON that is sprayed on our fruits are disgusting! If these are the experts, we are in for hell on earth!These people are being paid off by extreamly evil think tanks! THE NEW WORLD ORDER is not a pretty picture for the masses! ONE WAY OF GREAT DEPOPULATION I should think! Ever wondered why so many of the so called leaders keep going on about globalisation and the new world order rubbish, and cabon foot print scam!

Council for Responsible Nutrition

I suspect that the CRN has an axe to grind. See below for the sponsorship of the CRN.

Check this site to see their campaign.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_for_Responsible_Nutrition

"Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) is a Washington-based trade association, whose members include Archer Daniels Midland Company, Bayer Corporation, Cargill Health & Food Technologies, and Monsanto Life Sciences Company, representing ingredient suppliers and manufacturers in the dietary supplement industry.

Dietary supplements are currently an unregulated market with no testing required before they are marketed. CRN advocates a self-regulatory model of the dietary supplement industry and vigourously apposes any FDA regulatory control while having current, or past, ties with the FDA."

Who is the "Council for Responsible Nutrition?"

The article quotes the Council for Responsible Nutrition's defense of the use of vitamins. It should have pointed out that this is a vitamin manufacturer trade association. Per their Web site: "The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), founded in 1973, is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing ingredient suppliers and manufacturers in the dietary supplement industry."

bad title

Data shows no protective effect for CVD or cancer but vitD and Ca are still important supplements to protect against osteoporosis. You have a dangerously wrong title to your article and need to change it to something more accurate.

I wonder who paid for the study ?

Follow the money, and then make up your own mind on the research

Amusingly typical comments from a dumb public

YES, we DO need vitamins and protein to survive. It is a fact. But only in certain, and relatively small amounts. Most Americans get plenty with an even approximately typical diet. I just turned 52 two days ago, haven't been in a doctor's office in literally years, and take no supplements other than a 400 IU vitamin E gel cap every other day, and likely don't even need that. I've been a runner for 20 years and can do 80 pushups non-stop with no problem, and have for years. I keep tabs on my own blood pressure and have a blood profile done every once in a while (without doctor's visit), and I interpret my own results. People have a tendency to develop an almost emotional attachment to their vitamin pills or whatever it is they think they can't live without. In my younger years, I felt that I just COULDN'T live without a One-a-Day Plus Minerals capsule every day, until I realized they were unnecessary and making me SICK. Stopped cold turkey in 1985 and never took another one. I did survive after all, and quite well!!

Vitamin D not C

cures rickets. My apologies.

Breast Cancer

I was diagnosed with SQUAMOUS CELL BREAST CANCER

at the age of 69 and I have eaten a healthy diet of

primarily raw vegetables and fruits, whole wheat

products, and very little red meat - mostly chicken,

with pork and fish about twice/week. I've also

taken a multivitamin and B Complex with C daily

all my life. I garden about 3 times/week year around

about 2 hours each time - but I wear long pants

and a long-sleeved shirt or shorts and sleeveless shirt depending on the weather. I've also taken Vit. D

supplements since I've only used goat's milk - no

cow's milk ever. none of my doctors can explain why

I'm basically very healthy (now at 71), but still

got a rare breast cancer - unrelated to hormones.

Vitamins & minerals can cure an ailment but what has a drug ever cured?

Vitamin C can cure rickets & scurvy. Iron can cure anemia. But what drug has ever cured anything? And I'm not talking about a vaccine that prevents a disease either. I'm talking about a drug that CURES what ails you. Drugs many help in some capacity but vitamins, minerals and the right herbs can keep you healthy. Eat right, exercise, drink enough filtered water (notice I didn't say bottled), and get enough sleep. Stop relying on a pill to make it all better. Look around the next time you're in a restaurant. Most of the people there are obese, morbidly obese in may cases. Our parents & grandparents didn't eat the crap being served up at these places. They prepared meals with lots of fresh vegetables, small portions of meat and usually fresh fruit for dessert - homemade ice cream during the summer if we were lucky. Remember sitting on the back porch with a double handful slice of watermelon or a juicy peach? I grew up in the country & we were considered poor. That meal was "poor folks' food" that was grown in our garden but we ate healthy. We're too busy to cook like that these days so we pick up a pizza or some other fast food on the way home. (With the economy the way it is, we'll be downsizing our meals soon enough.) It's no wonder our children & grandchildren are little porkers, on their way to being adult porkers & a heart attack. Yes, I'm guilty of falling into the fast food trap but I've turned back to my "roots" & it just feels better, too.

Interesting

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, is a lead researcher for several of the largest pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Glaxo Smith Cline.

The findings are absolute hogwash, and utter crap. I've been on vitamin, and hormone therapy (Testosterone and HGH) since turning 40 and I am in better health (I've got a 6 pack now) than I was playing football in college.

If your shallow enough to believe that vitamins have little to no effect of health, than I guess you can just eat ice cream and drink Mountain Dew all day, as hey....you really dont need vitamins and certainly don't need supplemental vitamins.