– beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium – looked at 296,707 participants over 78 randomised controlled trials. The conclusion: vitamin E and high doses of vitamin A may actually“The trials that have been done of vitamins have not shown benefit in people who are not deficient. We’re just seeing it time and time again,” said Professor Rachel Neale of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute.
If vitamin D deficiency is as widespread as that number suggests, would a benefit from supplementation show up in Professor Neale’s study? “Almost certainly,” she told me.“When you look across the body of evidence, the findings are quite disappointing,” said Dr Helen Macpherson, senior research fellow at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research at Deakin University .
Multivitamins are one example. Similarly, many people with back pain believe it emanates from a dodgy disc, and replacing that disc with an artificial one will cure their complaint – but there isWhy? Perhaps because, while science has gone a long way to unpicking nature, nature is also infinitely complex.
Consider just eating vegetables. For each extra serve of vegetables you eat per day, there is reasonable evidence that you cut your risk of heart disease and stroke, and suggestive evidence that you cut your risk of oral and prostate cancer. Eating more than one serve of spinach a week is linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer; eating broccoli or cauliflower likely cuts your risk of lung cancer. One to two serves of tomatoes a day likely cuts your risk of prostate cancer.
Stopped the multivitam a year ago. Not needed unless your deficient, other wise body will dispose of the excess. But the industry want you to buy..
The sycophancy of Costello’s TheAge & its LNP lickspittles knows no bounds. Costello, Alcorn & resident stenos seem not even embarrassed to publish turds like this. auspol springst
You’re worried about a $15 bottle of multivitamins when housing went up 40% during the pandemic & the media cheered that on?
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They work if you are deficient in something & need the boost. They don't work if you are taking them unnecessarily & aren't treating a medical problem. It's not complicated.