Vitamin Warnings!

No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs
Poison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety

(OMNS, January 19, 2010) There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John's wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Two children died as a result of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other "Electrolyte and Mineral" category death was due to a man accidentally drinking sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener.

No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period.

61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is "one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking."

Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so "dangerous," as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Those who wonder if the media are biased against vitamins may consider this: how many television stations, newspapers, magazines, and medical journals have reported that no one dies from nutritional supplements?

Reference:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47, 911-1084. The full text article is available for free download at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf . Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.

For Further Reading:

Download any Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers from 1983-2008 free of charge at http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDSPoisonData/AnnualReports/tabid/125/Default.aspx

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chrisp said:

noobs ive never had any direct posts with you but just a question because from wot ive read you know more than me. why do u feel were taking multis?why should we take multis? I watched this english programme the other day were a guy was making his own cornflakes,so he gets 1 cornel from the cob hooks out the (eye) as he calls it and then tells me that thats where all the vitimans and goodness is, il stop it there but you get the point .Apart from a handfull of items 5 max my family and myself do not eat anything processed (milk and bread are to of the exceptions) EVERYMEAL is made up of lean meat veg or salads.I and my kids DO take multis, do you think i need to? Lets just get onething straight im not trying to 'get up you' im just very interested in yr opinion on multis , why we should take them and why YOU think we are taking them

cheers

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Sticky said:

Top 3 multi's for the lifting man who doesn't eat HEAPS of greens, in your opinion noobs? I know you've touched on it before, I just can't remember where.
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11th hour said:

I'm a bit late to this thread....

I thought the main reason to take a multi vitamin even on a good diet is because quality of soil gets compromised when crops are constantly grown in it without resting the soil (ie. modern farming) - poor soil quality = poor nutrient quality in plant foods. I'm not sure what fertilisers add to the equation. I've also read lately that heirloom plant varieties are generally more nutritious than cross-polinated/GM options.

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n00bs said:

Its sad, everything is driven by money i.e more varieties of plant food so we can sell more kinds for different prices and it is less nutritious for the community.

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11th hour said:

I find it mind boggling how many businesses are built on the unstable foundation of creating high sugar/chemical products, packaging them and calling them food. Of course, the food industry is not the only one churning out pseudo products....

What a different world it would be if businesses were required to "do no harm"...

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