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Vitamin D not effective for colds and respiratory tract infections

Posted 27 January 2014

Readers will be aware that some while ago, Solal made claims in adverts that Vitamin D is effective for colds/influenza. We pointed out that the claims were false, and the data from the study they used (Japanese schoolgirls), misconstrued.

Two studies published, one at the end of 2013, where Vitamin D/D3 was tested to see if it would work in preventing influenza/colds, found that they did not. Will Solal change their claims? Unlikely, selling Vitamin D and making money is more important.

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January 27th, 2014 | Tags: , | Category: Vitamins | Leave a comment

10 surprising dangers of vitamins and supplements

Posted 17 August 2013

This interesting article, 10 surprising dangers of vitamins and supplements  – Don’t assume they’re safe because they’re ‘all natural’, published by Consumer Reports Magazine in September 2012 was brought to my attention and deserves posting here. Although many vitamins and supplements may be safe, many are not.

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August 17th, 2013 | Tags: , | Category: Supplements, Vitamins | 11 comments

Are antioxidants of any benefit?

Posted 10 May 2013

This interesting article was published in the Washington Post, and reproduced here for the benefit of readers.

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May 10th, 2013 | Tags: | Category: Vitamins | Leave a comment

Vitamin pills can lead you to take health risks

Posted 29 August 2011

A very interesting article by Dr Ben Goldacre, published in The Guardian.

“Trials show that people who think they’ve done something healthy, even if they haven’t, smoke more and believe they are invulnerable to diseases”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/a ug/26/bad-science-vitamin-pills-lead-you-to-take-risks

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August 29th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Vitamins | One comment

Fish oil and other supplements

In his column in The Guardian, Dr Ben Goldacre writes:

“This week the food and nutrition pills industries are complaining. They like to make health claims about their products, which often turn out to be unsupported by the evidence. Regulating that mess would be tedious, the kind of project enjoyed by the EU. Enter Nutrition and Health Claims Regulation in 2006.Since then member states have submitted thousands of health claims for manufacturers about cranberries, fish oil and every magical ingredient you can think of. This week it turned out that 900 have been examined so far, of which 80% have been rejected.”

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July 11th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Vitamins | One comment

Omega-3 lesson: Not so much brain boost as fishy research

One tiny brain-imaging study of fatty acids has been used to endorse fish oil as education’s magic pill. Oddly enough, someone has now finally conducted a proper trial of fish oil pills, in mainstream children, to see if they work: a well-conducted, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, in 450 children aged 8–10 years from a mainstream school population. It was published in full this year – and the researchers found no improvement.

Dr Ben Goldacre has written in his column in the Guardian on the evidence for the claims for Omega 3.

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June 22nd, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Vitamins | 3 comments
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