1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Feb 11, 2009, 7:33 pm PST

good

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Feb 11, 2009, 8:30 pm PST

Typical medical establishment bull. Medical doctors have an average life expectancy of about 57 so says Dr. Eli Wallach and others. Its best to ignore their "conclusions" when it comes to pretty much everything that has to do with prevention and over all general health. This society seems to look at M.D. 's as "gods" when they are respondsible for hundreds of thousands of hospital deaths each year from incompetance and other mistakes. With billions in research funds since the Nixon adm. to work with they have totally failed to "win the war with cancer". I could go on and on. Pathetic.

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Feb 12, 2009, 2:24 pm PST

Since this was an observational study, I wonder if the majority of those self-reporting the "regular" use of multivitamins were swallowing a "One A day" or a "Centrum" (synthetically produced, fractionated or isolated from refined raw materials such as crushed rock, petroleum by-products and organic solvents, i.e. non-food sources), several times per week? If so, I too am not surprised by the studies results. Furthermore, I wonder if the long-term daily consumption of high quality, whole food derived multivitamins might prove to lower the incidence of certain cancers and heart attacks/strokes. Given the poor nutritional value of the standard American diet, I believe this type of supplementation is warranted.

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:42 am PST

Um sorry...but your telling me that vitamins are essentially not good/and or bad for you? Then why eat vegetables then? Full of nutrients and vitamins...This just goes to show you how ridiculous these so called "tests" are...They are nothing but theories...I take a centrum everyday and I feel great. I clearly don't feel like a god after taking it but I know it helps. This article is ridiculous and I'm sure I can find plenty of doctors who object to this. Whats next, your going to recommend eating candy, cookies, cheeseburgers for health? Its almost like they want people to die early.

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:42 am PST

The list of people who should take vitamins includes 'individuals who are not getting an adequate diet because they are too sick or too poor--or live by themselves and are unable to prepare proper meals for themselves.' What exactly does this mean? That without a wife to prepare my meals, I am not eating properly (incidentally, I'm female)? I think that actually I do just fine cooking for one (and always having left-overs). There must be a better way to state whatever this point is.

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:43 am PST

Wow-that was a really useless article that said as little as possible in as many words as possible. It could ONLY have been written by a doctor.

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:43 am PST

it seems doctors are worthless

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:44 am PST

In the top portion of this article, you said that vitamin E and beta carotene were potentially harmful. Then in your list near the end of the article, you contradicted what you said at the top of the article on beta carotene and vitamin E....so, which is it? Harmful or not?

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:44 am PST

Wow-that was a really useless article that said as little as possible in as many words as possible. It could ONLY have been written by a doctor.

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:44 am PST

In the top portion of this article, you said that vitamin E and beta carotene were potentially harmful. Then in your list near the end of the article, you contradicted what you said at the top of the article on beta carotene and vitamin E....so, which is it? Harmful or not?

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11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:45 am PST

Wow-that was a really useless article that said as little as possible in as many words as possible. It could ONLY have been written by a doctor.

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12. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:45 am PST

great article!! thank you for the insight!!

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13. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:46 am PST

we don't suffer either, so the pennies wasted on multivitamins wouldn't really be a waste. "All this is not to say that specific vitamins supplements are never desirable. Vitamins can be valuable in certain situations: " Why not just take one a day all the time?

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14. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:46 am PST

this sounds like big pharma propaganda. the FDA just banned vitamin B6 because they were paid off by a pharmaceutical company looking to corner the market for a drug that they are promoting which mimics vitamin B6. the FDA only cares about big pharma $$$ and not the health of Americans

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15. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 9:46 am PST

Vitamins in a Isotonic state are all I will take... absorbtion is the key not digestion.

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