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This topic tends to be flamebait unfortunately, and the title of this article doubly so. A better title might be "Harvard releases vitamin and mineral supplemen
by claar 9y ago
This topic tends to be flamebait unfortunately, and the title of this article doubly so. A better title might be "Harvard releases vitamin and mineral supplements guide for clinicians".
The actual guide is more informative than the original link as well in my opinion: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2672264 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2672264
- nwah1 9y agoThank you. And if you compare the recommendations to supplement sales, it is probably much more aligned than the headline would suggest. Sales of vitamin D, B12, folic acid, etc would total in the billions of dollars, and thus make up a large percent of the industry. But this guide isn't comprehensive at all, and doesn't go into the evidence for the multitude of vitamins, whereas other researchers have tried to synthesize more of that data. [1] [1] https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-scientific-evidence-for-health-supplements/ https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-... (I wouldn't say it is exhaustive by any means, but this is the correct framing of the debate)