Something for those not yet wary of following the latest medical research
Things started going south for this romance 13 years ago when a Finnish study of 29,000 male smokers showed a higher rate of lung cancer in men who took beta-carotene and vitamin E and, more shockingly, found that those who took beta-carotene had an 8 percent higher risk of death from all causes. Two years later, an American study reported similar findings for beta-carotene. I've never been a smoker, but a red flag is a red flag. Out went the beta-carotene. . . . .
Labels: healthcare, Research
posted by John Lott at 1:32 AM
2 Comments:
This article is a good example of how effective the decades long campaign against vitamins and herbal remedies has become. A relentless stream of negative and confusing pronouncements against vitamins and herbs can only induce a kind of cognitive fog that divides consumers into either total skeptics or total believers.
Pretty soon we should hear about a video being released announcing a universal consensus of scientists agreeing that vitamins will make you sick and we need to toss them all out to save the drug industry.
In the meantime I will stash mine in the hidden cabinet so the vitamin police can't find them.
Correlation = Causation?
Perhaps? or, were the vitamin freaks the ones who had poorer health to start with?
it all sounds a bit simplistic.
Keith
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