We at ACSH have been screaming into the wind about the
folly of the supplements industry for years. Supplements are nothing but
unregulated drugs, and ending this illogical divide between them and
prescription drugs is long overdue. Today,
on the Science 2.0 site, ACSH’s Dr. Josh Bloom and co-author Dr. David Seres,
the head of nutritional medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital published a
piece called “Preventing Heart
Disease With Vitamin BS,” which dismantles a poorly designed
observational study that claims that vitamin supplements help prevent cardiac
death in women, despite overwhelming evidence that they do not. And,
it would be hard to miss Anahad O’Connor’s absolutely damning
piece on the front page of today’s New York Times. O’Connor clearly
points out something we have been saying forever—that
supplements do not come close to meeting even the most lax standards for what is in the bottle,
let alone whether they are safe and effective. A must read……To Read More…..
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