AMA endorses multivitamins (finally)

Post #42,875 by andread 6/19/02 9:40:56 AM Reply	AMA endorses multivitamins (finally) After decades of abusing vitamin takers as dupes and money wasters, the AMA has finally bowed to logic and suggests that adults take a multivitamin daily. This semi-monopoly has in the past demanded govt. investigations of the vitamin industry (now the supplement industry) and even agitated for prosecution of those who said there was value in taking vitamins. The facts have always been that the typical diet does not provide the RDA of vitamins and minerals but the medical geniuses blinded themselves to this reality. The other side claimed that greed and a desire to control the 'health' process was the reason why the doctor lobby was anti-vitamin. Wouldn't surprise me. I began taking vitamins over 30 years ago (and minerals, a day's supply of calcium and magnesium can't be squeezed into any pill you or I might care to swallow). The arguments of the vitamin folks were always clear and logical -- the food we eat does not supply the nutrition we need and they told us to look at plants (agriculture books are full of the effects of vitamin and mineral deficiencies in plants). Meanwhile the AMA came across like 'Mr Natural' saying that only a 'natural' diet (composed of processed foods and additives) could do the job. It never made sense and now we will watch them back down in further stages. A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|Tune In]
Post #42,886 by boxley 6/19/02 11:00:26 AM Reply	Go to a local farm And talk to a farmer. Him and vets know more about nutrician than almost any doc. Why would you provide mineral blocks and vitamen additives to animals but not people? I remember my father mixing an oat concoction for race horses that had to have a balance of things good for the horse. thanx, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #42,924 by Gibbo 6/19/02 5:46:23 PM Reply	Animal supplements aren't for health. Sorry to burst your bubble, but supplementing livestock is not for it's well being but to improve it's utility more rapidly than normal. And not all farm wisdom is necesarily good as evidenced by the mad-cow disease epidemic to mention but one. In nutritional studies it has been shown that it is still more effective to obtain the necessary vitamins and minerals from fresh fruit and veges. Vitamins and minerals have been found to be absorbed differently according to the vector. Also for me personally it is more satiating and pleasurable to eat something that fills the stomach and gives the necessary nutrition rather than pop a pill and still feel hungry
Post #43,025 by boxley 6/20/02 1:20:18 PM Reply	Race horses are not for slaughter ou want them strong and porportioned filled with energy and able to recover quickly from injury and long lived if you put them out to stud. Like the old man always said. "If its good enough for a 10K horse its good enough for my kids." As for eating rabbit food I'd rather run it thru the steak first. :) thanx, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #42,897 by jb4 6/19/02 1:48:09 PM Reply	Wadday wanna bet... ... that perhaps one of the Big Drug Companies is preparing to (or already is) marketing a line of vitamin/mineral supplements? Just follow the money, and the AMA won't be far behind... jb4 "I remember Harry S. Truman's sign on his desk. 'The buck stops here.' Strange how those words, while still true, mean something completely different today." -- Brandioch
Post #42,937 by kmself 6/19/02 8:31:58 PM Reply	Two that come to mind: Roche & ADM "Pricefixers to the World", both Roche and ADM supply multivitamins and food supplements (soy-based isoflavones, as the hush money^W^Wunderwriting credits say). Both were found guilty, and fined heavily for price-fixing. In the "gee, isn't that an odd coincidence" dept., I've worked for one, and a family friend was lead counsel for the other's anti-trust case. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] [link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|[link\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/\|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #42,916 by Ashton 6/19/02 5:18:10 PM Reply	Unsurprising behavior for Any Corporation And AMA medicine has been a Corporate model since the first days -- when it prevaled upon legislators to give allopathy a Monopoly protection unseen in any other country in the world (before or since). Just call everone else: quacks. Hey.. it always appealed too! to the Murican desire for simplistic fantasy. Now, we have ALL of our eggs in that one gold-lam\ufffd embroidered basket.. though other approaches are finally trickling in (and embarrassing the Hell out of the Old medical-Bolsheviks: every time YAN new successful approach to a recalcitrant 'disease' is seen to require neither pharm-chem no$trums nor surgical er 'intervention'). And anyone who supposes that... 20 hour days of crash courses for med students: with the Grail of unlimited fees dangled as nourishment - is much to do with "healing" or the acquisition of wisdom (?).. well - that person is their lawful prey. It's Bizness as Usual. Most US doctors who ever have tried to be innovative beyond the simplistic recipes of the PDR - were in past forced offshore: only these were ever "disciplined" by the Medical Corporate officers: as a threat to profit and a comfortable closed mind-set. The ones with kill-records of huge numerical count -- are still ""practicing"". Today. Look it up. (They ARE ab-fab at fixing trauma though - full marks in mechanical repair! 'Disease', restoration of robust health?? - now That's a Different story) Ashton

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