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Bill C
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On Apr 29, 5:00 pm, Steven Bornfeld <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Thanks, but I only SEEM infantile. I try not to get my medical advice
> from Oprah, but things go up and down more than enough in clinical
> medicine, let alone faddists. I DID take vitamin E until there was
> demonstrated a possible increase in lung cancer risk; I still take a
> multivitamin, but cut out the minerals after the increased cardiac risk
> of iron supplements for men was demonstrated.
>
> Steve-
It's like everything else. You get the best info you can, and make
informed choices, unless you're getting your info from the idiot box
talking heads, then you get what you deserve.
I know quite a few vegetarian athletes, my daughter in particular,
who aren't careful enough with their diet, regularly, to make sure
they get enough iron. That brings on anemia, verified by bloodwork,
and the anemia and all the symptoms go away, with good
supplementation, also verified by bloodwork, all done at our local
hospital lab, under doc's orders.
I guess the point is that, for 90% of us, or so, who don't eat a high
quality, complete diet, a good multivitamin/mineral makes sense to me.
The other effect is the placebo effect, if you will, of feeling better
about having done something that you believe is healthy. Cheap peace
of mind, and decreased stress with little to no cost or negative
effects.
Bill C
wrote:
> Thanks, but I only SEEM infantile. I try not to get my medical advice
> from Oprah, but things go up and down more than enough in clinical
> medicine, let alone faddists. I DID take vitamin E until there was
> demonstrated a possible increase in lung cancer risk; I still take a
> multivitamin, but cut out the minerals after the increased cardiac risk
> of iron supplements for men was demonstrated.
>
> Steve-
It's like everything else. You get the best info you can, and make
informed choices, unless you're getting your info from the idiot box
talking heads, then you get what you deserve.
I know quite a few vegetarian athletes, my daughter in particular,
who aren't careful enough with their diet, regularly, to make sure
they get enough iron. That brings on anemia, verified by bloodwork,
and the anemia and all the symptoms go away, with good
supplementation, also verified by bloodwork, all done at our local
hospital lab, under doc's orders.
I guess the point is that, for 90% of us, or so, who don't eat a high
quality, complete diet, a good multivitamin/mineral makes sense to me.
The other effect is the placebo effect, if you will, of feeling better
about having done something that you believe is healthy. Cheap peace
of mind, and decreased stress with little to no cost or negative
effects.
Bill C