Vitamins: More May Be Too Many

From: Keith Elis (hagbard@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 16:28:13 MDT

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    Happened across this article today, which seems relevant to the recent
    spate of diet threads.

    So far, it seems that all anyone really knows about nutrition is that
    too much of almost everything is bad, and too little of almost
    everything is also bad. The infuriating part of this is that no one can
    agree on what 'just enough of everything' means. I haven't the least bit
    of confidence that any of these nutritionists know what they're talking
    about.

    If every physicist with a half-baked 'new' interpretation of QM saw the
    chance to inaugurate the next 'physics fad' with a mass-market paperback
    hyped to the gullible public, the real science being done in physics
    would inevitably be drowned-out by the din of cranks. I suspect
    nutritional science is in this kind of predicament today. There is a
    demand for cranks. Wait around long enough, and even the diet of a 500
    pound bed-ridden obese person will come into vogue.

    Keith

    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=1&u=/nyt/20
    030429/ts_nyt/vitamins__more_may_be_too_many



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