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Say What! Ditch your daily dose of multivitamins? Believe it or not, that appears to be the consensus following a number of recent reports caused a volcanic transfer of the medical community concerning the use and advantages of multivitamins. The question-Do they work?
Leading experts are hitting the scales with a resounding, NO.
“We believe that the case is closed – supplementing the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) mineral or nutritional vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and can be also harmful,” said the authors of the editorial published within the journal?Annals of Internal Medicine.?”These vitamins shouldn’t be used for chronic disease prevention. Enough is sufficient.”
This strong message uses a?panel of experts convened by the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force in November found that there wasn’t enough evidence to summarize that most multivitamins could curb heart disease or cancer. The group, which reviewed 26 studies conducted between 2005 and 2013, also discovered that taking vitamin E may actually increase the chance of cancer of the lung in smokers. But the group did give a nod to vitamin D, that has been proved to be both effective and?ineffective?for preventing fractures and falls in the elderly.
In a statement to CBS News, among the study’s co-authors, Dr. Edgar Miller?said people should “stop wasting [their] money” on multivitamins.
Instead, Miller suggests folks spend their dollars on healthier food choices like veggies, fruits, nuts, beans and get plenty of exercise. These things, he said, assists you best long-term.
It’s estimated that half of all Americans take vitamin and mineral supplements-with sales this year reaching a whopping $28 billion.
The latest string of studies has put mounting pressure on the industry. Just last year, Pfizer agreed to remove both “colon and breast health” claims from some of its Centrum multivitamins?following pressure in the Center for Science within the Public Interest, which called their claims of cancer prevention misleading.
But not everybody agrees with the data. In fact, a health supplement industry group slammed the editorial and studies.
In a statement Steve Mister, president and CEO from the Council for Responsible Nutrition, said “It’s a shame for consumers that the authors won’t recognize the real-life requirement for mineral and vitamin supplementation, living in a fairy-tale world that makes the inaccurate assumption that we’re all eating healthy diets and becoming everything we need from food alone.”
Mister’s comments drive home the purpose of America’s track record of poor diet choices and not-so-great obesity statistics. Based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 72 million Americans are considered obese.
And other experts agree that those who’re nutrient-deficient can always take advantage of multivitamins such as people with conditions like celiac disease — where the body doesn’t properly absorb nutrients. You have to ladies who are pregnant where folate can assist in preventing birth defect of the baby’s brain and spinal-cord.
