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Originally Posted by Christine06
Great thread,
Nutritional supplements represent a support to our body. The nutritional supplements clean the human body and restore the deficiencies present inside. While taken constantly, nutritional supplements promote good health and help prevent disease. Nutritional supplements represent a good thing that we need.
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Christine, can you support this statement "nutritional supplements represent a good thing that we need", given recent research showing nutritional supplements may actually make you less healthy? I posted one link above, about antioxidant supplementation. I have other recent research showing links to prostate cancer and supplementation of certain other vitamins. I think it will be very difficult for you to come up with studies showing that multivitamins lead to overall better health, whereas it's becoming increasingly easier to show alarming links between vitamin supplementation and negative health consequences. In short, I don't think you can support your statements that nutritional supplements "promote good health" or are a "good thing that we need" with solid science showing positive health consequences such as decreased all-cause mortality. I don't think the assumption that multivitamins are a "safety net" can be supported anymore.
My advice here would be to stick with low-potency supplementation, if you're going to supplement. But the important thing is to re-double your efforts to get all your nutrition from food.
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It is best to satisfy the body's vitamin and mineral needs with a healthy diet.
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Exactly.