"People who take supplements are healthier than the population at large, but their health probably has nothing whatsoever to do with the supplements they take — which recent studies have suggested are worthless. Supplement-takers are better-educated, more-affluent people who, almost by definition, take a greater-than-normal interest in personal health — confounding factors that probably account for their superior health."
I disagree profoundly. The statement is purely prejudicial interpretative propaganda, and is not based on any studies, which to date have not been comprehensively done on the supplement/non supplement populations. I agree that some of the inferences sound logical but that is the basis of specious argument, to sound reasonable without backing with any firm data.
The entire population of Finland has reduced its average CVD incidence by an astounding 40% in the past 10 years or more. This has been suggested comes from a few sources. One exercise, another diet, and another supplementation.
The most vocal apponent of supplementation for decades, an MD who advised the FDA, in the end relented and advised the fortification of bread and milk with folic acid and b12 to avoid homocysteine vascular toxicity in the general population. Fortification of skim milk is done in all G7 countries to avoid D3 deficiency which shows in children as rickets otherwise.
Fortification is supplementation. You are already on the program and have been for decades. The decline in Cancer and Heart disease since 1989 in the North American population is analogous very closely to the timing of the start of fortification of folic acid and b12 to foods.
This connection led to the 1998 introduction of public health measures in the US and Canada, where all grain products are fortified with folic acid – the synthetic, bioavailable form of folate.
While preliminary evidence indicates that the measure is having an effect with a reported 15 to 50 per cent reduction in NTD incidence, parallel measures in European countries, including the UK and Ireland, are still on the table.
The new study, published in the current issue of The Journal of Nutrition (Vol. 136, pp. 2820-2826), looked at the effects of fortification on the folate intake of 61 university-educated women (average age 32) during pregnancy (recruited at week 36) and lactation (four and 16 weeks of lactation) based on weighed food records.
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bakeryandsnacks.com
Incidentally on Cholesterol.
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