Health Matters: Multi-Vitamins Linked to Longevity

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:42:45 +0000

Posted: 3:10 PM May 26, 2009
Last Updated: 3:10 PM May 26, 2009
Reporter: Triston Sanders- Medical Anchor
Email Address: triston.sanders@wctv.tv

May 21, 2009
Could multi-vitamins be the key to women living longer?
A new study suggests multi-vitamins could help a woman prolong her life simply because they can prevent parts of a woman’s DNA from shortening.
More than five-hundred women participated in the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences study.
Researchers asked them about their use of vitamin supplements over a twelve-year span.
They found those who took multi-vitamins had longer strands of DNA called telomeres in their white blood cells.
Because telomeres shorten slightly when cells divide, researchers think preventing this shortening could protect new cells, which would in turn reduce the effects of aging.
However, they do admit that it’s not clear whether the vitamins preserved telomere length or they actually lengthened life.
The findings appear in the June issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Women’s Multivitamin Study Seriously Flawed, As Usual by Mike Adams the Health Ranger

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:53:00 +0000

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Key concepts: Vitamins, Multivitamins and Nutrition

(NaturalNews) A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine claims that multivitamins are useless at preventing cancer and cardiovascular disease in women. The mainstream media has predictably picked up on this story, gleefully running it as "proof" that nutrition is worthless and only pharmaceuticals can enhance your health.

What they’re not telling you, though, might shock you. Here’s the truth about this so-called "scientific" study on multivitamins:

• No multivitamins were even used in the study! The women followed in this study weren’t actually given any multivitamins at all. They were simply asked if they take multivitamins!

• There was no quality control in the study. Since no multivitamins were given to women, there was no quality control at all. Did these women take cheap, synthetic vitamins bought at Costco? Or did they take quality supplements from better sources? Nobody knows because it wasn’t tracked!

• Most people SAY they take multivitamins, but don’t. If you ask most people, they will TELL you they eat healthy, and that they take multivitamins. But in reality they don’t. Most people greatly exaggerate the description of their own health habits.

• Multivitamin consumption FREQUENCY was not accurately measured. There was no ability of this study to reliably measure how often consumers actually took their multivitamins. Did they take them once a week? Once a month? Once a year? Even taking them once a year would have counted in this study as "taking multivitamins." Gee, no wonder the results showed no improvement…

In effect, this study did not measure the effects of multivitamins on cancer and heart disease. What it really measured was the degree to which people exaggerate their own claims of health habits, and the degree to which the mainstream media so easily falls for junk science.

The MSM remains utterly clueless about nutrition, and it simply reprints practically any study published in a medical journal, even when that study is obviously based on deceptive science and a pro-Pharma agenda.

All these attacks on vitamin C, vitamin E, antioxidants and multivitamins have the same source: The Big Pharma-funded mainstream media and its effort to try to discredit nutritional supplements in order to please advertisers.

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Health Matters: Multi-Vitamins Linked to Longevity

Women’s Multivitamin Study Seriously Flawed, As Usual by Mike Adams the Health Ranger