Multivitamins: Friend or Foe?
Well, the results are in from the National Institute of Health conference on the the effects of multi-vitamin/mineral (MVM) supplementation on chronic disease prevention.
Perhaps you’ve seen some of the traditional media reports claiming that the NIH is discouraging the use of MVM’s.
Oh, puh-leez. If you read the actual report you can see for yourself that the bottom line is that the panel didn’t feel they could make strong recommendations about using MVM’s for chronic disease prevention because there haven’t been enough studies done to support definitive conclusions.
Well, on the one hand that’s not too surprising. Few supplement companies can or will commit to that kind of clinical research and those that do, don’t have the huge profit margins of the drug companies at their disposal.
On the other hand, it does make me wonder about a double standard. Drugs are approved for sale and can claim to alleviate health problems all the time without multiple studies. It seems to me that much less is required for an official approval of a synthetic drug. Why do you suppose that is?
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