Why Vitamins Aren’t What You Think
January 7th, 2010 admin
Those who missed it yesterday should check out Emily Anthes’s article in Slate in which she notes that vitamin supplements might be worse than merely useless : They could kill you. She cites a whole bunch of studies backing up both the theory that most supplements in most cases don’t have any beneficial health effect, and the theory that some of them can be downright dangerous. Despite the mounting evidence, she writes, “it doesn’t seem to have put a dent in the $25 billion supplement industry. Sales are not only robust but rising in the United States.” What she doesn’t mention is the food industry’s reliance on the same…
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