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Startling Dietary Research
VITAMIN PILLS ARE BAD FOR YOU? Come on . . . next thing you know, they’ll claim that George Washington lied about cutting down the cherry tree. But researchers did examine the data on more than 295,000 men and found that those who took TWO OR MORE vitamin pills a day were 32 percent more likely to get prostate cancer, and twice as likely to die of it, than those who took ONE A DAY OR NONE. High doses of beta carotene, selenium, and zinc supplements proved exceptionally dangerous. In other words, one vitamin pill a day is fine; doubling the amount recommended can be dangerous. This goes along with what the nutritionists have been saying for years: get your vitamins the natural way, by eating healthy food. And, when you eat, say, an orange, not only are you getting vitamin C, you are getting many other valuable nutrients, including the folic acid that helps prevent Alzheimer’s. Check it out at http://www.medpagetoday.com/Urology/ProstateCancer/tb/5654 ANTIOXIDANT SUPPLEMENTS DON’T MAKE YOU LIVE LONGER: We’ve heard that antioxidants in our food will make us live longer. So how about we take a thousand times more in pills? Should make us live a thousand years, right? Wrong. The scientists have once again discouraged us in well doing. They crunched a lot of data and found that massive doses of some antioxidants may actually shorten your life. Or, as the article in Science Daily put it, “Use of beta carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E was associated with 7 percent, 16 percent and 4 percent, respectively, increased risk of mortality, whereas there was no increased mortality risk associated with vitamin C or selenium use.” (Though you noticed, in the item just above, that big doses of selenium increase the likelihood of prostate cancer.) Read all about it at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070227171026.htm So, once again, the best way to take in antioxidants is through healthy food, such as fruits and vegetables. Check out the website below to learn the absolute best way to get your antioxidants and vitamins: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/07/29/ I’ve also noticed that the vitamin pills I take (just once a day, of course) are carefully formulated NOT to supply large amounts of things they shouldn’t supply large amounts of. It’s good to know that those people keep up with the literature, lest we all die from an excess of conscientiousness. ASPIRIN HELPS IN TWO WAYS ASPIRIN PREVENTS COLON CANCER. If your doctor has asked you to take aspirin as a blood thinner, you may also be at less risk of colon cancer. The people in the following study took one full-dose aspirin each day. (Most of us take less.) Also, the benefits only kicked in after five years. What about people who take lower doses for shorter periods? They haven’t studied that yet, though they’re about to. Read more about it here: http://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/ WHY DO SCIENTIFIC STUDIES SOMETIMES CONFLICT? If you wonder why scientists come out with conflicting data, click below to find an excellent article about this very thing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ |
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