What can you do, when even their own relatives do not want to listen to the advice of the doctor in the family? Here, Francis Collins is not just any doctor. The Director of the influential institutes of Health of USA (NIH) has contributed decisively to the deciphering of the genome and price for years as a hot contender for the medical Nobel. But also probably the most powerful doctor in America, apparently, can do nothing about it, if some of the members of his family to swallow regular vitamin supplements, although he warns to the public before and of course none of the means.
Collins in his Blog has discussed post as NIH Director, patient that vitamins from foods such as fruits, meat or grains are healthy and a balanced diet, because the body cannot produce now time. They are, however, in the Form of colorful vitamin preparations – no matter whether it is pills, effervescent tablets, juices or splash, you’re of no Use. On the contrary, the supplements and supplements do not only bring no health benefits, you damage tends to be even. “Dietary supplements and vitamin supplements are not a substitute for a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet,” writes Collins.
true to have but, apparently, hardly anyone. The promises of the manufacturer and of the widespread Belief in the vitamins are so powerful that a billion-dollar market has emerged with the tablets and essences that continues to grow. In Switzerland alone, are spent on supplements each year, several Hundred million Swiss francs. And to flush the inhabitants of the United States attest to scoffers for a long time, the most expensive urine in the world in the sewer. Finally, a large is excreted part of of ingested substances unchanged via the kidneys.
a regular intake can appeared the cancer risk
increase The current study, which takes Collins to the occasion, in order to shake the Faith of the vitamins out of the box, in the “Annals of Internal Medicine” and shows how it is more than 30 000 adults in the absence of many years. Researchers at Tufts University in Boston, are proof that the regular intake of vitamin preparations brought the subjects with no health Benefits. “We could see no life extension”, so the terse conclusion of the scientists to Fang Fang Zhang, after the analysis of the cases of death and disease.
probably The most powerful doctor in the United States: Francis Collins is the head of the National authority for health and pills of vitamin. Photo: Keystone Also in sub-groups no Use of dietary supplements showed, as is claimed by the proponents of the additives: vitamin supplements could suffer mortality from cancer or heart disease also have an influence here. On the contrary, the subjects of more than one gram of calcium daily in the Form of additional preparations came to himself, it is even a little more frequently to cancer than in the comparison group.
years Ago, it was reported in various studies, a slight increase of cancer if adults regularly vitamin products swallowed. In a large group of more than 40 000 older women the cancer, as well as the risk of heart attack increased in those supplements, as a study from the year 2011.
urologists observed a increase of prostate cancer in men, the handles regularly to the powders and pills. “Supposedly harmless substances such as vitamin supplements, can harm,” warned the urologist Eric Klein, who had also conducted the 2011 study. “Consumers should be skeptical, if over-the-counter means a health Benefits advertised, but is not proven.”
The balance of the supplements is even negative, if it is taken into account, which people resort to the vitamin supplements: It is the earners and the supposed better to hide, rather, the pills and powder in the Faith to consume, to do Good with it. This upper income and education layer, but it belongs to that part of the population, the lives of health-conscious, balanced feeds, and more sports, less Smoking and less alcohol drinks and therefore equal to several years of increased life expectancy. In many of the vitamin studies, these differences were not taken into account so that the balance sheet for the supplements in them a positive impression.
other negative effects of vitamin supplements have been described in the past few years. So, Danish scientists Goran Bjelakovic demonstrated on the basis of the data of more than 230 000 adults, that vitamin supplements are of use only nothing, but in some cases, even life can shorten. Too much of a supposedly Good thing can also damage, and the side effects of an Overdose have long been described as “hypervitaminosis” in textbooks. Finally, not all vitamins are excreted without consequences with the urine, and too much Vitamin A, D, or C can lead to heart rhythm disturbances, vomiting, and decalcified bone, and during pregnancy, and even child development are disturbing.
How comes it, that in spite of this for at least a decade known side effects to conservative estimates, after about 20 to 30 percent of adults in the industrialised countries vitamin supplements? In the United States, there are 40 to 50 percent. The seductive Name, the can’t think up a PR Agency have done better, certainly. The term Vitamin, however, “vita” for life and “amine”, which sounds like a substance that could need the body of much. In addition, it is to understand, Yes, indeed, intuitively hard, like a fabric so blessed, healthy, and life may be necessary, if he is included in a grown animal or a Mature Plant, but in powder or tablet form to the organism to damage.
A Portion of health for the bad Conscience
The most plausible explanation for this is machts The mixture. Food chemists illustrate this with the Apple or the lemon. These fruits are about a thousand different substances are contained, all of the ingredients and their importance in the Detail are not known. In a vitamin Supplement, only one material is; in a multi-vitamin Supplement, there are maybe a dozen – and this amount is not enough. Apparently, it needs the interaction of the various substances in the natural food, the vitamins exert their effects on health. The nature does not easily, in the laboratory or in industrial production, the succeeds, so that the products harm consumers, rather than use them.
So, exactly, wants to know, but hardly anyone. Too tempting are the promises that go along with the fast vitamin kick out of a can or bottle. Offered to the people a kind of modern indulgences. After the supposed diet sins such as gluttony with Steak, French fries, cake or the poor diet certain wants to be reassured. With vitamin supplements and other nutritional supplements the body should be fed to, in return, a good Portion of health.
while That works and has proven to be one of the biggest nutrition mistakes of the last decades. The myth around the artificial vitamins seems to be indestructible. Anyway, he is so strong that even the family of the Supreme chief medical officer of the United States believes in it.
(Sunday newspaper)
Created: 11.05.2019, 17:23 PM
