From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 16:43:19 MDT
> (Technotranscendence <neptune@mars.superlink.net>):
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/29/health/nutrition/29VITA.html
>
> This is a basically unbalanced article on supplements. I'm surprised
> the NY Times didn't consult with anyone who holds a rival view in the
> antiaging crowd.
I don't see where this is biased at all. In fact I think it's about
damned time somebody told the pill-popping public that they're very
likely to be wasting their money and even harming themselves by
taking vitamins and other supplements without knowing or caring why.
Sure, there will be a few stray folks like life extensionists who
know how to evaluate preliminary studies and take a few well-chosen
supplements for specific reasons, and that's fine. But most Americans
are just blindly buying anything they think is good, eating vitamin-
enriched cereal, supplemented soft drinks, and pills on top, quite
possibly giving themselves dangerous levels of things like iron and
vitamin A. And mostly for no proven health benefits at all.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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