{"id":211721,"date":"2010-01-21T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8021519673330908753.post-7837529460407131934"},"modified":"2010-01-22T06:49:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T11:49:53","slug":"zero-deaths-caused-by-vitamins-minerals-amino-acids-or-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/211721","title":{"rendered":"Zero deaths caused by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

To hear opponents of natural medicine say it, vitamins and herbs are extremely dangerous for your health. They should be regulated, we\u2019re told, because they\u2019re so dangerous!<\/span><\/p>\n

Statistics from the U.S. National Poison Data System prove otherwise. According to a 174-page report just published, the number of people killed in 2009 across America by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbal supplements is exactly zero.<\/span><\/p>\n

Compare that to the 100,000 (or so) Americans killed each year by FDA-approved pharmaceuticals \u2014 and that\u2019s even according to studies published in JAMA. Also consider the thousands of women harmed or killed by medically-unjustified cancer treatments following false positives from faulty mammograms. And don\u2019t forget about the more than 16,500 Americans killed each year from internal bleeding caused by NSAIDs (over-the-counter painkillers).<\/span><\/p>\n

As the July 1998 issue of The American Journal of Medicine explains:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cConservative calculations estimate that approximately 107,000 patients are hospitalized annually for nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)-related gastrointestinal (GI) complications and at least 16,500 NSAID-related deaths occur each year among arthritis patients alone.\u201d (Singh Gurkirpal, MD, \u201cRecent Considerations in Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Gastropathy\u201d, The American Journal of Medicine, July 27, 1998, p. 31S)<\/span><\/p>\n

So if NSAIDs alone are killing 16,500 people a year (or likely much more now, as use of these drugs has risen significantly since 1998), and nutritional supplements are killing zero people a year, why do health regulators try to scare everybody about vitamins<\/a> being so \u201cdangerous?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Pharmaceuticals, meanwhile, are openly allowed to be prescribed for off-label use, meaning that doctors can prescribe them for diseases and health conditions for which they\u2019ve never even been tested! Read more…<\/span><\/a>
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To hear opponents of natural medicine say it, vitamins and herbs are extremely dangerous for your health. They should be regulated, we\u2019re told, because they\u2019re so dangerous! Statistics from the U.S. National Poison Data System prove otherwise. According to a 174-page report just published, the number of people killed in 2009 across America by vitamins, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}