Vitamin Safety...
Concerns about Vitamin Safety are all the buzz today. While doctors are busy convincing their patients that most supplements are unsafe and unproven, legislation is pushing its way through Congress requiring Adverse Event Reporting on Dietary Supplements - this, despite the fact that correctly prescribed drug side effects kill over 100,000 people a year (JAMA, 2003).
Bewitched by the Media, the FDA, and their supposed health authorities, consumers are made to think that safe, affordable and time-tested alternatives to toximolecular medicine are useless.
Huge pharmaceutical companies like Wyeth, who report billions of dollars in profits every year, are immune to this crisis in the real health care that natural alternatives provide. Centrum, which contains cheaply sourced synthetic chemicals and inorganic and biologically inappropriate "nutrients," many of which are industrial waste products, is perhaps the best selling multivitamin on the planet. The irony here is that at the very moment in history that supplements are facing draconian regulatory changes, the most toxic supplement of all is free to be sold, promoted and ingested by the masses, despite what are perhaps its many deleterious effects on health.
How is it that doctors would recommend something that is toxic, so readily and uncritically? I suppose they have had decades of practise prescribing deadly and injurious drugs to millions of Americans.
