A pediatrician finds childhood vaccines by spending few years an assault on vitamins and dietary supplements.
“If you take dietary supplements of vitamin A, vitamin E, beta carotene [or] selenium every day or excess amount then you will have the risk of heart disease says, a researcher at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Many studies have shown that vitamins and dietary supplements rarely help and often hurt, Offit says. Still a huge number of people believe that supplements will improve their health. So, Offit decided to challenge the false beliefs of “the church of vitamins and supplements.”
Offit says a big problem with this is a 1994 law that the FDA applies to its regulation of medicines. Meanwhile, patients clearly benefit from a range of FDA-approved statin drugs that actually do what garlic supplements claim to do.
These supplements are claimed as “natural,” even though it is not true. For example, almonds are a natural source of vitamin E. But you would have to eat 17 pounds of almonds to get the amount of vitamin E in a single capsule then how it would be a natural thing?”
Many hospitals provide unproved supplements in their list of medicines but he says in his own institution, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, plans to remove nearly all supplements from its list later this month.
More often than not, these claims are simply designed to pressure you into buying right away without stopping and asking yourself some serious questions about just how efficient a product is. You should also note that “limited quantities” is a weasel word, because you could have 100,000,000 units of a product in stock and still claim that the quantities are actually “limited” in some way. If a product is legitimately helpful, people will spread the word around on their own, so there is really no need for a company to use deceptive marketing practices to try to pressure consumers into making a decision right away.