Just another sham finding for something we've been told will be good for us all these years then suddenly it will kill us instead!
2007-02-27 22:52:55 · 8 answers · asked by Sir Sidney Snot 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
http://lifestyle.aol.co.uk/health/vitamin-pills-increase-risk-of-death/article/20070228043509990001
2007-02-27 22:56:30 · update #1
so maybe its best to get the vitamins from real food instead of pills :-)
2007-02-27 23:04:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Overdosing in certain vitamins and minerals can be harmful.
Eg the body cannot get rid of Vitamin A - dietary supplement may be harmful and cause poisoning and could kill.
Taking Vitamin Bs and Vitamin C can be useful in aiding healing and rectifying deficiency in diet.
Basically all can be obtained in food consumed if people ate a balanced diet - Nutritionist and chemists are qualified to advise safe quantities.
The drug companies for years have been trying to stop the sale of over the counter vitamins and other self help remedies, there are some dangers but it is also a ploy to control who gets rich and drug companies do like to have the monopoly.
The drug companies are still providing misleading information to GPs regarding anti depressant drugs - these too can kill.
Basically Clary Sage Essential Oil should be issued with a health warning as should taking Vitamin A and taking anti depressants, to name just a few items freely obtainable and prescribed.
2007-02-27 23:10:05 · answer #2 · answered by Jewel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No great surprise. Beta-carotene has been known for some time to increase the risk of lung cancer in smokers, and the dangers of fat-soluble vitamins A and D have also been known for a long time. E hasn't been studied as long, but it's been a matter of waiting for the other foot to drop. The whole business with megadoses of C started with a Nobel laureate who was not a physician, and the bulk of the medical profession have been skeptical from the start, with most trying to get the word out for decades that it doesn't work, for instance, to treat colds, but once it hit popular culture, it was too late for physicians to have any say. Any reputable physician would have told you that for the vast majority of the population the dietary supplement industry is a joke, but snake-oil salesmen have always had a solid position in society and probably always will, because there's a customer born every minute. There's even a category in YA for hucksterism, euphemistically named "alternative medicine" for those who prefer magic to the scientific method.
2007-02-28 05:20:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If taken in excess vitamin supplements have always been dangerous to health and if taken regulary with excess could prove fatal, this has been known in the medical world for years and is not new. The best way of getting our daily vitamin needs is through our foods and not through supplements.
2007-02-27 22:58:27 · answer #4 · answered by isleofskye 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If Vitamins are taken in the proper doses they are good for you. You can get toxic poisoning if you take too many for a long period of time. But I still believe Vitamins are great. Prescibed medication is more dangerous.
2007-02-28 04:31:28 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most things are a placebo. so there's not surprise ther's a conspiracy on vitamin pills
2007-02-27 22:56:47 · answer #6 · answered by kate m 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
look, anything will kill you if you take too much of it!
2007-02-27 23:13:48 · answer #7 · answered by rose_merrick 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
anything can kill you, it just depends what you do with it!
2007-02-27 23:03:35 · answer #8 · answered by officegirluk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋