Hi Guys, Recent media reports in Australia quote a Danish Hospital Research Team study, which questions the safety of vitamins and I submit the following article to you by way of rebuttal The study itself is a Meta study, using data from previous, questionable, research from a variety of resources. At least one of which used subjects who were already seriously ill with unconnected health problems.

Nowhere in the Danish study quoted, does it say who or which organization sponsored the study. The material below makes interesting read. I note also that last year, the Chief Coroner in New Zealand, published a similar report, attesting to the fact that his historical records showed no deaths directly attributable to vitamins. (as reported earlier in my blog)

23 Years Of Documented Vitamin Safety Categories Control tactics Health through Nutrition Practical Health The Nature of Government Here is further support to that already provided in "Use (Abuse) of Regulations to Protect Pharma Monopoly" that vitamins are safer than foods. Yet the regulatory bodies are going to protect us from these safe products, never mind the toxicity of drugs that are killing millions! Obviously safety is simply are ruse to protect their pharma budies…. Chris Gupta See also: REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT VITAMIN SAFETY REVIEW PANEL ——————- 23 YEARS OF DOCUMENTED VITAMIN SAFETY (OMNS, Feb 27, 2007) Over a twenty-three year period, vitamins have been connected with the deaths of a total of ten people in the United States. Poison control statistics confirm that more Americans die each year from eating soap than from taking vitamins. Where are the bodies? A 23-year review of US poison control center annual reports (1) tells a remarkable and largely ignored story: vitamins are extraordinarily safe. Annual deaths alleged from vitamins: 2005: zero 2004: two 2003: two 2002: one 2001: zero 2000: zero 1999: zero 1998: zero 1997: zero 1996: zero 1995: zero 1994: zero 1993: one 1992: zero 1991: two 1990: one 1989: zero 1988: zero 1987: one 1986: zero 1985: zero 1984: zero 1983: zero The zeros are not due to a lack of reporting. The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), which maintains the USA's national database of information from 61 poison control centers, has noted that vitamins are among the 16 most reported substances.

Even including intentional and accidental misuse, the number of alleged vitamin fatalities is strikingly low, averaging less than one death per year for more than two decades. In 16 of those 23 years, AAPCC reports that there was not one single death due to vitamins. These statistics specifically include vitamin A, niacin (B-3), pyridoxine (B-6), other B-complex, C, D, E, "other" vitamin(s), such as vitamin K, and multiple vitamins without iron. Minerals, which are chemically and nutritionally different from vitamins, have an excellent safety record as well, but not quite as good as vitamins.

On the average, one or two fatalities per year are typically attributed to iron poisoning from gross overdosing on supplemental iron. Deaths attributed to other supplemental minerals are very rare. Even iron, although not as safe as vitamins, accounts for fewer deaths than do laundry and dishwashing detergents.

References: 1. Annual Reports of the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poisoning and Exposure Database (formerly known as the Toxic Exposure Surveillance System). AAPCC, 3201 New Mexico Avenue, Ste. 330, Washington, DC 20016. Download any report from 1983-2005 here free of charge. The "Vitamin" category is usually near the end of the report. 2005 is here. 2004 is here. 2003 is here. Other years are here. Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as "the treatment of disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human body." Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource. Editorial Review Board: Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. Harold D. Foster, Ph.D. Bradford Weeks, M.D. Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D. Erik Paterson, M.D. Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D. Steve Hickey, Ph.D. Andrew W. Saul, Editor and contact person. email: drsaul@doctoryourself.com . To subscribe at no charge: http://orthomolecular.org/subscribe.html

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