Comments on: Doubts Cast On Vitamin Supplements

Can Some Do More Harm Than Good? How Much Is Too Much To Take?

[gaye5]

The article says...But studies are now suggesting that some vitamins not only unnecessary, but could be dangerous.

Yep, natural things taken from nature are dangerous eh..
The amounts that you get from health food stores are so low that they are lucky to even be effective so the likely hood of it being to much is very low.. and yes we have to be careful of the very odd thing just as you do with eating tooooo many carrots, so put warnings that doses over a certain amount could be dangerous. I feel that this article is just another article to put the fear into people so as they will go and get help from a Dr, when it is Dr''s and pharmecutical Drugs which is the 4th cause of death in America..
BUT!!! according to an other report, the most conservative reading of statistics culled from government and peer reviewed journals shows that 751,936 Americans die every year as a result of medical error, also known as iatrogenesis. This is the equivalent of over six jumbo jets filled with passengers falling out of the sky every day. A summary of the paper''s basic findings were published in Nexxus Magazine." ~Nutrition Institute of America
http://www.nutritioninstituteofamerica.net/ResearchOverview.htm...
Yep it sure is natural products we must be careful of eh..

[lpgideon]

Quite a scary article. However, I am now 80, and my doctor advised me to take the One-A-Day (not necessarily the brand name) tablet. That was ten years ago. I still take it and feel healthy as ever. I also eat mostly well balanced meals, lovingly made by my ever loving wife every day.

[lpgideon]

Quite a scary article. However, I am now 80, and my doctor advised me to take the One-A-Day (not necessarily the brand name) tablet. That was ten years ago. I still take it and feel healthy as ever. I also eat mostly well balanced meals, lovingly made by my ever loving wife every day.

[brucesmall]

Let me see if I understand the comments. You don''t trust doctors to tell you the truth, but you do trust the vitamin supplement manufacturers who have every reason to lie to you in order to get you to spend your money on their products.

[displeased]

Natural is best. Eat a well balanced diet with natural and local foods and you shouldn''t need to waste money on supplements. And you get additional benefits from obtaining your nutrients from fruits and veggies. I was trained in nutrition that consuming too much fat soluble vitamins can work against your health. As the article said, your need for supplements depends on lifestyles.

[cdfoxtrot]

Almost no one takes the massive doses of vitamins required before they are harmful. These skeptical articles are usually written by doctors who are in cahoots with the drug industry who are still pushing clearly harmful drugs like Celebrex. Obviously, they don''''t like you to use vitamins. More harm is done by far by prescribed medicines than by vitamins taken in moderate doses. Bobvan30

Posted by bobvan30

Well said. I love the arrogance of the medical community in poo-pooing anything that''s outside what they offer, themselves. I never hear the medical people trying anything that keeps us healthy and PREVENTS us from becoming seriously ill in the first place. I guess there''s no money in keeping people healthy. Doctors are parasites, keeping people alive long enough while they bleed their wallets dry, until the patient consumes too much of their time. Then it''s bye-bye, time to die.

[revrom]

Almost no one takes the massive doses of vitamins required before they are harmful. These skeptical articles are usually written by doctors who are in cahoots with the drug industry who are still pushing clearly harmful drugs like Celebrex. Obviously, they don''t like you to use vitamins. More harm is done by far by prescribed medicines than by vitamins taken in moderate doses. Bobvan30

[lloydbest1]

Vitamins A, D and E are among the fat soluable class of vitamins. Vitamin C is water soluable.
It is possible to get too much of the fat soluables. But a normal diet rich in veggies plus CORRECT dosages of mainstream vitamin suppliments still put most of us well below the limits approaching toxicity.
For most of us.
The "Aw, ***" comes with the rare individual with an unusual sensitivity to (usually) one of the fat soluable vitamins included in a multi-vitamin package.
Likewise it is possible to get too much Vitamin C as well. To do so you would need something like 5000 mg per day over a period of several weeks to see the effects. With a pH of about 4, though, you''d be feeling the consequences of hemo-acidosis long before any toxic symptoms directly related to the vitamin appear.
Yeah, you can get too much of a good thing; but it is not something to worry about if you take your suppliments at clinical (or better yet, subclinical) doses.

[davewrite1]

There are two types of vitamin tablets: multivitamins and single vitamins. Multivitamin tablets are, in theory, harmless, though usually unnecessary. Most multivitamin preparations do not contain all 13 true vitamins, and the doses of vitamins they do contain usually deviate far from their RDAs. Single-vitamin preparations are more difficult to justify because it has been found that people often take the wrong supplements. In pregnancy, for example, the special need is for extra iron, folic acid, and calcium. Megadoses of vitamins carry the risk of toxic effects, especially for vitamins A, D, and B6, and possibly for some of the other vitamins.

[doggiemom1]

Doctors don''t make money off people that are healthy. Why would a doctor support anything that might keep people health and off prescription medicine that adds dollars to the doctors own pocket. Wonder which drug company did the studies?
"ANY dose may be ill-adviseda"
If this is the case which I do not personally believe, then all the foods and beverages that are fortified with any vitamin or mineral should also be ill-advised.
Doctor, drug companies and hospitals don''t want people healthy, they would stop making so much money. Seems they find many new disease, but the ones that make the most money for them, don''t seem to get cured, just more money for reasearch. Follow the money trail.

This report is laughable. When Big Pharma test vitamins they always used the synthetic version never natural vitamins. But then every thing that Big Pharma makes is synthetic and foreign to the human body. Their side effects and now their new black box warning might just be a warning that prescription poisoning is very possible. Natural vitamins boost the immune system, big Pharma has nothing for the immune system, why should they, it would just eat into their profits.

[kayakgirl4]

I hate to be negative here, but since when is a Doctor an expert on Vitamins? I know that the drug companies enjoyed the show today. If everyone stops taking their nutritional supplements they can get them on more prescription meds. I was raised taking vitamins and nutritional supplements, and continued to do so in my adult life. My parents are in their late 60''s and are on no prescripion meds. My husband was not raised with nutritional supplements, it took a bad bout with divirticulitis (inflamed colon), and a bad health screening at work to get him to start thinking about vitamins and supplements. He is now very healthy since I have him on a good multivitamin, fish oil and probiotic. His cholesterol came down, his divirticulitis is no longer flaring up and he has much more energy. His parents have a full pharmacy of drugs in their house that they are prescribed to take multiple times a day. Both of our families eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. The only differnce is one family takes vitamins, the other takes meds. Obviously you can take what you want from my comment, but please think twice before taking what this article says to heart.