By: Svetlana Pasarić |
Media hoax exposed: Recent attack on vitamins is a fabricated scare campaign |
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Famous newspapers and media, including Time, USA Today, LA Times, and several newspapers and median in Croatia - 24 hours, and Index.hr Dnevnik.hr - all spread negative information on vitamins, minerals and dietary supplements.
Through a variety of sensational headlines they are trying to tell us that vitamins can kill us.
“Study links vitamins to higher death rates in women” - CTV
”Study: Vitamins may increase death risk in older women” - USA Today
”We've Been Wasting a Ton of Money on Vitamins and Dietary Supplements” - TIME
”Some common vitamin supplements could increase death risk” - MSNBC
”Dietary supplements risky for older women, study finds” - LA Times
”Supplements Look Risky In Study Of Older Women” - NPR
”Vitamins do more harm than good, new suggest says” - News.com.au
”Women Who Take Vitamin Supplements May Have Increased Death Risk” - Huffington Post
"Scientists have proven: Vitamin supplements increase mortality in older women" - Index.hr.
"Supplements of vitamins and minerals are more damaging than useful to our health" - 24 hours.
"Scientists: Large doses of some vitamin supplements increase mortality" - Dnevnik.hr
There are thousands of articles that are trying in different ways to tell us, "Do not take your vitamins! They are harmful to your health! "
There is only one problem: this whole story is nothing but a fraud! Now we will explain why.
1. Research was conducted by pharmaceutical industry
First, we must mention that the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, which published the research, belongs to the American Medical Association (AMA), which has a long history of public attacks on natural supplements and alternative medicine in This network of fraud is nothing other than an attempt to intimidate people to stop taking natural supplements for improving their health.
To accomplish its goal, the media dug out a "scientific" study which was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, and that is based on false conclusions. After that, the study was additionally "interpreted."
AMA was once brought to court for trying to discredit and even complete destroy Chiropractic – a branch of alternative medicine - in America.
Such organizations, which belong to the pharmaceutical industry, never miss their chance to attack all alternative treatments and natural remedies.
2. Results of the study were obtained from inaccurate sources
The study is actually called "Dietary Supplements and Mortality Rate in Older Women" (Dietary Supplements and Mortality Rate in Older Women "- Arch Intern Med. 2011, 171 (18):1625-1633)
The study states that it re-examined which vitamins and minerals were consumed by 38 772 older women by sending them 3 surveys during the period of 18 years with questions on which vitamins and minerals they were consuming.
Wait a minute! Is this a scientific research or a survey? Surveys have nothing to do with scientific research. Survey results are incorrect - it is a well known fact.
Not one prominent journal would publish the results of a "scientific" research obtained through surveys. But the AMA in its desire to discredit alternative medicine has crossed than line.
3. The survey results were modified
In addition to survey results being incorrect, they were additionally modified. At the 4th page report in PDF format we find Table 2, which shows the percentage of "health risk" associated with the use of certain vitamins and minerals.
What do the numbers in the table below represent:
- 1.0 - neutral outcome (no increase in mortality)
- less than 1.0 - reducing mortality
- above 1.0 - an increase in mortality
So what do these numbers really say?
- Vitamin B complex was associated with a 7% reduction in mortality
- Vitamin C was associated with a 4% reduction in mortality
- Vitamin D was associated with an 8% reduction in mortality
- Magnesium was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
- Selenium was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
- Zinc was associated with a 3% reduction in mortality
Unfortunately, this data was not published by the AMA or by any mainstream media, but posted negative figures like these were published:
- Folic acid was associated with a 9% increase in mortality
- Copper was associated with a 31% increase in mortality.
We must note that at the start of the research copper was taken by 57 women, and in the end only 24 (other stopped) – which was interpreted in the study as a 50 percent mortality due to intake of copper!
After that, in order to additionally deteriorate and complicate findings, researchers "interpreted" the results of surveys to get a result that suits them.
By their own admission, they have arbitrarily adjusted the results according to “age, level of education, housing, health, obesity, physical activity, etc.” of participants.
In this way, the survey results were so distorted that they could no longer be recognized with original results.
4. A difference between natural and synthetic vitamins and minerals was not taken into account
Another fact that completely discredits this whole study: the researchers did not think to ask survey participants which they vitamins are taking.
Nobody knows how many participants took natural vitamins and how many of them used synthetic ones.
How many of these women bought cheap synthetic vitamins that can be found in any supermarket? Brands that produce them claim that they are vitamins, but they are not!
These are chemicals, harmful as other pharmaceutical drugs. There is a high probability that the majority of older women just consumed harmful chemicals called "vitamins".
In the eyes of modern scholars there is no difference between the nutrients obtained chemically in the laboratory and their natural counterparts. However, nutrients from nature are different!
For example, vitamin C in nature can never exist in an isolated form – it is always found together with other antioxidants and phytonutrients.
Therefore, vitamin C from natural sources (for example, rose hip) is different from vitamin C created in a laboratory.
Today's scientists unfortunately do not know anything about that and therefore do not make any distinctions in their research.
Avoiding the delineation of natural and synthetic vitamins, the study authors finally rejected all vitamins as substances dangerous to health.
We can conclude that this study is a complete fraud that has nothing to do with science!
Who favors from such propaganda?
I believe that modern medicine was created with a noble goal of easing the suffering of mankind. Honestly I believe that the goal of most physicians is to help their patients.
But the pharmaceutical industry is slowly taking matters into its own hands.
The pharmaceutical industry has nothing to do with treatment. Its objective is the sale of larger quantities of drugs and the growing realization of profits.
As soon as more people get sick, more drugs are being used. The more drugs you use, the sicker you become - and you need medications even more. It is a vicious circle from which it is difficult to escape.
In most cases, medicaments that do not cure anything are being sold; they simply reduce the symptoms of the disease.
How many times have we heard that a new cure for cancer was discovered - and nothing happens after that? Naturally, such researches were soon abandoned because finding such medications is not in the interests of the pharmaceutical industry.
Their "marketing campaign" includes many astonishing methods and their discrediting of alternative medicine and natural remedies through the media is a piece of cake when compared to their other methods.
The real truth
The vitamins will not kill you, but pharmaceutical drugs do kill millions of people worldwide every year.
Because of vaccination, the health of our children is destroyed.
Chemotherapy has killed more people in the world than cancer.
There are natural antibiotics, antioxidants and products that strengthen the immune system, which are harmless and do not cause the formation of resistant bacteria.
Cancer is curable with the help of simple, accessible and safe natural methods.
Pharmaceutical companies are spreading false information, trying to intimidate you and convincing you that you are stupid.
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