Do Nutritional Supplements Work? Some Surprising Facts
Some big, unfounded rumors are circulating about nutritional supplements. And they're circulating under the guise of science and experience. But instead of helping you make wiser choices for your health, they do the opposite. They make it harder. Because these false tales ignore volumes of research and several thousands of years of human healing practices using food, herbs and minerals. What fallacies am I talking about? A December 2013 editorial published in The Annals Of Internal Medicine, titled "Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements" concluded: "We believe that the case is closed- supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and might even be harmful. These vitamins should not be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is enough."[1] Now here's the thing... I agree we need to pay attention to results of the studies the authors referred...