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It's worth noting that they're describing the effects of high doses of vitamins. Given the average modern diet (at least, for Americans like me), vitamins may b
by joshklein 15y ago
It's worth noting that they're describing the effects of high doses of vitamins. Given the average modern diet (at least, for Americans like me), vitamins may be necessary to achieve "normal" doses.
I take a fiber supplement (which, I know, is not a vitamin) because I try to avoid refined carbohydrates, which tends to mean I have to avoid carbohydrates altogether except when making a home-cooked meal. Since the average adult male around my age/weight needs ~28g of fiber a day, and I probably consume 15g or less, the 6g supplement seems prudent. Anecdotally, my ... er, system ... seems to work better that way.
- lucisferre 15y agoExactly, most vitamins are dietary supplements and not meant as wonder drugs. What the article fails to mention is the hazards of being deficient in any of these things and how easy with a modern diet it is to be deficient.
- scott_s 15y agoThat's a study I would like to see: how deficient people's diets actually are. I hear many claims about this, but never heard of any systematic attempts to verify it.
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- joshklein 15y agoI sat in a lecture from a Harvard professor who claimed the average American consumed less than 50% of the fiber they should be. Don't have a link/paper for you, though. He cited it as a major contributor to colon cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
- tjr 15y agoAlso important is that they are not describing the effects of high doses of all vitamins. Superfluous amounts of Vitamin E seem to be mainly what they are seeing negative results from, and you'd probably only be getting that much Vitamin E if you were taking Vitamin E-specific supplements on purpose.
- alperakgun 15y agoThis type health news confuse people; everything we think will make us healthy is later claimed as an unhealthy exercise in some other research, should we distrust health news in mainstream media totally?
- Florin_Andrei 15y ago> I take a fiber supplement (which, I know, is not a vitamin) because I try to avoid refined carbohydrates I clamped down on useless carbs altogether. Bread, potatoes, rice, popcorn, soda, etc - either eliminated or greatly reduced. I eat fruits as much as I want. Fiber issue - solved. > Anecdotally, my ... er, system ... seems to work better that way. Absolutely. :)