Comments on: Vitamins Do Not Prevent Cancer or Heart Disease

By: drnic

drnic — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:53:51 +0000

It is true that in many cases our diets are sub optimal but the idea that a pill can solve this issue is a misleading. While common sense may suggest a course of action, the improvements in healthcare and in particular our knowledge of healthcare have been driven by science, in particular the Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT). The article cited makes some good points and there is always potential for bias but as more research is carried out the effect of bias is typically reduced and mitigated.
The book – “Trick or Treatment – Alternative Medicine on Trial” does an excellent job reviewing the process of understanding the treatment of disease explaining why the science is important and showing how this has been a key element of much of our recent and explosive progress in medical therapy. Adjunct nutritional supplements to counteract specific proven deficiencies makes sense but billions of dollars….the price tag is too high and the data insufficient to justify this level of expenditure.

By: resistanceisfruitful

resistanceisfruitful — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:17:57 +0000

It's important to keep published research reports in perspective. Common sense tells me it is likely that most of us suffer from nutritional deficiencies. It's one thing to say "eat a good balanced diet", and quite another to actually do so, considering the state of the food supply most of us are dependent on. Now if the the issue is the quality of nutritional supplements, I'm all ears. I recommend this interesting article from the Public Library of Science (PLOS), entitled Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.

By: Kyani

Kyani — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:38:43 +0000

I agree with you. People need to eat healthy to stay healthy. Fatty food are everywhere, but we alone are responsible for giving our body the nutrients that it need to function properly.