Published in Orthomolecular Medicine
News Service, January, 2017
No Deaths from Vitamins. None.
Safety Confirmed by America's Largest Database
by Andrew
W. Saul, Editor
There
were no deaths whatsoever from vitamins in the year
2015. The 33rd annual report from the American Association of Poison Control
Centers shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins. And, there were no deaths
whatsoever from vitamin A, niacin, pyridoxine (B-6) any other B-vitamin. There
were no deaths from vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, or from any
vitamin at all.
Zero deaths from vitamins.
Want to bet this will never be on the evening news? Well, have you seen it
there? And why not?
After all, over half of the
U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. If each of those people
took only one single tablet daily, that makes some 170,000,000 individual doses
per day, for a total of well over 60 billion doses annually. Since many persons
take far more than just one single vitamin tablet, actual consumption is
considerably higher, and the safety of vitamin supplements is all the more
remarkable.
It was claimed that one
person died from vitamin supplements in the year 2015, according to AAPCC's
interpretation of information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System.
That single alleged "death" was supposedly due to "Other
B-Vitamins." This was claimed back in 2012 as well, with no substantiation
then, either. Indeed, the AAPCC report specifically indicates no deaths from
niacin (B-3) or pyridoxine (B-6). That therefore leaves folic acid, thiamine
(B-1), riboflavin (B-2), biotin, pantothenic acid, and cobalamin (B-12) as the
remaining B-vitamins that could be implicated. However, the safety record of
these vitamins is extraordinarily good; no fatalities have ever been confirmed
for any of them.
My Comment:
Once again there were no deaths from vitamins
for 2015 the most recent year that data is available. Compare that to drugs,
which kill between 100,000 and 200,000 people per year. And yet big money tries
so hard to eliminate our access to vitamins and do everything they can to
discredit them. But there is no comparison, vitamins are safe, and drugs are
not.
Study After Study Confirm That Eggs Are Good For You
What came first: The cholesterol-fearing chickens
or the eggs?
We can joke about it now, but for years all we heard was lots of dietary advice about how deadly cholesterol was. Unfortunately, that old mantra has been -- and probably still is -- scaring off millions from eating eggs.
But researchers have now discovered that not only do eggs not contribute to heart disease, but eating them can actually protect you from having a stroke!
And not just having eggs once in a while, either, but every single day.
When the mainstream gets it wrong, they really get it wrong. And that's been the case with eggs for a long, long time. In fact, the egg-fearing myth has been one of its most sacred cows.
That makes an admission like this one all the
more surprising: "I think what we thought we knew isn't what we know
now." That's how epidemiologist Dr. Dominik Alexander, lead author of
a new study on eggs, summarized his findings.
What Dr. Alexander and his team found is that eating an egg a day appears to significantly lower your risk of stroke.
Unbelievable! Why, suggesting that we should eat eggs daily would have been considered treason just a short time ago.
In fact, even if you scramble, poach or sunny-side-up fewer than four eggs a week, you'll still be getting these stroke-reducing benefits.
And get this: The analysis also found no significant link between egg consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease.
What Dr. Alexander and his team found is that eating an egg a day appears to significantly lower your risk of stroke.
Unbelievable! Why, suggesting that we should eat eggs daily would have been considered treason just a short time ago.
In fact, even if you scramble, poach or sunny-side-up fewer than four eggs a week, you'll still be getting these stroke-reducing benefits.
And get this: The analysis also found no significant link between egg consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease.
Of course, this shouldn't
come as a surprise to my readers. I've been telling you about the
health benefits of eggs for years now.
For example, eggs, and specifically egg yolks, contain:
For example, eggs, and specifically egg yolks, contain:
- · vitamins A, D, and E
- · a whopping amount of omega-3 fatty acids
- · lutein and zeaxanthin, which can protect your eyes, and
- · B vitamins such as folate, B6 and thiamin.
And recently, two studies from the University
of Alberta had shown that our bodies convert the proteins from egg yolks into
peptides, which both lower blood pressure and are a rich source of
antioxidants.
But one important thing that these studies don't address is the difference between conventional eggs and ones from free-range, organically-fed chickens.
Organically-raised hens have been found to lay eggs that contain three times more omega-3, twice as much vitamin E, 40 percent more vitamin A, 50 percent more folate, and 70 percent more vitamin B12.
In addition, according to a UK government survey, the eggs from chickens raised in factory farm cages are five times more likely to test positive for salmonella than eggs laid by organic, free-range hens.
Of course some are still clinging to the old party line on cholesterol. Dr J. David Spence, a professor at Western University, chimed in on this new study saying that "egg yolks are not okay," and that we should continue to eat those tasteless egg white omelets.
Seriously Dr. Spence?
Of course, the idea that eggs are actually good for our health – and our heart health in particular – will never be accepted by all authorities in the field.
But that's only natural, I suppose. After you've spent years handing out bad nutritional advice, it can certainly put a lot of egg on your face!
Victory! European Union Bans
Amalgam Fillings for Children and Pregnant or Nursing Women
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
“The next generation of Europe’s children are safe from
toxic dental mercury,” proclaims Charlie Brown, president of Consumers for
Dental Choice and the umbrella World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry.
Starting July 1, 2018, amalgam use is banned for children
under the age of 15 and for pregnant or nursing women — anywhere in the vast
European Union (EU) — 28
countries in all, with a population totaling more than half a billion people.
“This landmark achievement still has to be officially ratified,” Charlie says, “but all three European Union institutions, the [European]
commission, the Council [of the European Union] and the European Parliament
have reached consensus.
“The ban on amalgam for children in Europe, we promise you, will
reverberate in favor of the children across the world — in America North and
South, in Africa, and in Asia and the Pacific,” said Brown.
“The game changer that will do in amalgam is the Minamata
Convention on Mercury, which requires every participating nation to act to
reduce amalgam use. The Convention is expected to become legally binding in the
middle of 2017.”
The hard-fought victory in Europe came after six grueling
years of reports, hearings before the Commission, meetings at the Parliament,
events in the national capital cities and in the E.U. capital city of Brussels,
and submission of testimony to a seemingly unending number of players.
Civil society — the public — mobilized at a level rarely
seen on an issue so intertwined between environment and health concerns.
In an internet vote called by the European Commission, 88
percent of the public voted for a phase-out of amalgam as opposed to only 12
percent to keep amalgam — and voter turnout was double that of any other
Minamata issue.
European-wide nonprofit groups brought their networks to the
forefront, and were joined by nation-based environmental and patient rights’
groups from France, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Sweden, Denmark,
the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain and Italy.
At the outset of the campaign in 2010, every major European
Union institution supported amalgam. At the end, in 2016, no major European
Union institution did.
Prenatal vitamins will make your kid smarter, says new study
Keep popping those prenatal
vitamins! A new study published in the Lancet Global Health journal
says taking multi-micronutrient supplements (MMN)—prenatal vitamins,
essentially—during pregnancy will actually make your kid smarter in the long
run.
In the 2012-2014 study,
conducted by an international group of researchers and funded by the Government
of Canada through Grand Challenges, Canada’s Saving Brains program, researchers
tested nearly 3,000 Indonesian kids ages nine to 12 whose mothers had either
taken a MMN or a folic acid supplement. Long-term benefits were observed in the
MMN group:
Kids showed particular strength
in procedural memory, which is tied to things like academic performance
and learning new skills like driving, typing, reading, math and languages. Researchers
say these improvements in procedural memory are equivalent to a half-year of schooling.
The study also notes the other
crucial factors in growing smart, academically successful kids: Plenty of
nurturing early in life, happy moms and educated parents. In fact, researchers
go on to say that a child’s nurturing environment is far more important to his
brain development, intellectual ability, memory and fine motor skills than
biological factors such as mom’s nutrition
during pregnancy, low birth weight, premature birth, poor infant physical growth
and nutritional status.
“This study shows that mothers
who take multiple micronutrient supplements during pregnancy can give their
child an advantage in life,” says Karlee Silver, VP of programs at Grand
Challenges Canada. “But healthy development needs public health investments to
go beyond bio-medical strategies aimed at mothers-to-be, expectant mothers,
babies and children. Beefed-up efforts to improve the nurturing environment in
which kids spend their first 1,000 days are also essential.”
My
Comment:
Be
sure to use “whole food vitamins”. They are becoming much more available now
and at reasonable prices. If you need help finding one just go to Supper
Supplements and ask them for a good whole food supplement, preferably that is
on sale.
Until
next time, stay healthy and happy
JD
Roma
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