Everyday the evidence keeps mounting against the wholesale taking of vitamins and supplements. Now the efficacy and the necessity for taking Vitamin D, a vitamin I once considered taking, even recommending it in the past, is being debunked.
Vitamin D supplements 'don't ward off ill health': [There is] Little evidence pills lower risk of cancer, strokes or other conditions
I'm not quite sure I understand the reasoning behind the conclusions here, but I accept it as fact since it's supports my belief that there is no need to supplement your diet with additional vitamins and supplements. Especially those of questionable safety and efficacy.
All I need now is for the next shoe to drop on Iron! I am still taking it, but with much consternation.
Vitamin D supplements 'don't ward off ill health': [There is] Little evidence pills lower risk of cancer, strokes or other conditions
......a review of 462 studies involving more than a million adults has concluded that a lack of vitamin D is not a trigger for many common illnesses.
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Lead author Professor Philippe Autier, from the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France, said: ‘What this discrepancy suggests is that decreases in vitamin D levels are a marker of deteriorating health. Ageing and inflammatory processes involved in disease occurrence .... reduce vitamin D concentrations, which would explain why vitamin D deficiency is reported in a wide range of disorders.’
I'm not quite sure I understand the reasoning behind the conclusions here, but I accept it as fact since it's supports my belief that there is no need to supplement your diet with additional vitamins and supplements. Especially those of questionable safety and efficacy.
All I need now is for the next shoe to drop on Iron! I am still taking it, but with much consternation.
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In this case I tried to read the original paper referred to but have to have a subscription to read it online. I don't accept a paper as proof until I try to tear it apart and fail. I can't tell you how many garbage papers are published even in peer review journals.
This was a metastudy analyzing a number of previous studies on Vit D. Some of those studies did show a positive effect for Vit D.
In any case I'm still taking it (it's cheap).
Too many people are too ready to accept as fact unsubstantiated claims (sometimes even outright lies) to support claims they've made or in justifying actions taken in response to something they are for or against.
As I am against the taking of vitamins and supplements, for a variety of reasons, I have no problem doing the same. I just chose to do it on a less controversial topic. :)
At least IMO
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But his study – published in The Lancet – did not cast doubt on the supplement’s effect on the bones.
The mineral is known to protect against bone thinning and the bone disorder rickets.
The article was only referring to Vitamin D's effect on disease prevention.