Re: Life extension in practice/was Re: the cut and paste blues...

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 11:26:19 MST


> I was thinking that "stuff vitamin pills down your neck" might be
> closer to the mark, but I am suspicious about how many of us actually
> try practical life extension, and how many of us just wait for the
> miracle cure...

If there _were_ such a thing as practical life extension, many of
us would no doubt do that. But while there have been many studies
showing some correlations between diets containing certain nutrients
and certain health benefits, there has not been a single study I'm
aware of to show that popping vitamin pills has any positive health
benefit at all.

--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
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