Modern Medicine vs. Alternative Medicine: Different Levels of Evidence. Prescription medicines and advances in medical treatment have helped people avoid disability and death caused by disease, lowered overall treatment costs, and has lowered death rates for heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other deadly diseases for several decades.
Since 1970, the death rate from heart disease has dropped nearly 60% and deaths from stroke are down 70%. The death rate from cancer has dropped 16% since 1990 and the death rate from HIV/AIDS has dropped more than 75% from its highest point in 1995. In addition, the average life span of Americans increased from 69.7 years in 1960 to approximately 80 years in 2007. In addition, the 5-year survival rates for cancer have risen by 26% just since 1984. And while HIV/AIDS was the 8th leading cause of death in the US in 1996, today, it’s not even ranked in the top 15.
FDA “Concerned” About Safe Supplements with Zero Death Rate. By Dr.
Mercola Vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements have a tremendously safe track record, yet they are often singled out as being potentially dangerous by government agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).This – the notion that dietary supplements are unsafe -- is the premise behind the FDA's Draft Guidance on New Dietary Ingredients, which would require the supplement industry to prove the safety of natural ingredients that, in many cases, have been on the market and used safely for decades.As new research from the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System reveals, there were zero deaths linked to nutritional supplements in 2010, the most current data available. Zero Deaths Linked to Vitamin Supplements "Well over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. When Doctors go on Strike Mortality DECREASES!
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Seriously though, as far out as some people on CureZone may seem to others of us, I venture to guess that everyone here is safer than completely trusting the so-called Doctors. Even when we THINK someone else is doing something "dangerous" or "crazy" or that they are "wrong", we all share the desire to take care of our own health proactively and independently. We are all on the same side! Doctors' strike in Israel may be good for health. Deathbymedicine. NO DEATHS FROM VITAMINS - NONE AT ALL IN 27 YEAR. This article may be reprinted free of charge provided 1) that there is clear attribution to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, and 2) that both the OMNS free subscription link and also the OMNS archive link are included.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, June 14, 2011 Commentary by Andrew W. Saul and Jagan N. Vaman, M.D. (OMNS, June 14, 2011) Over a twenty-seven year period, vitamin supplements have been alleged to have caused the deaths of a total of eleven people in the United States. The American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC) attributes annual deaths to vitamins as:
No Deaths From Vitamins or Minerals. This article may be reprinted free of charge provided 1) that there is clear attribution to the Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, and 2) that both the OMNS free subscription link and also the OMNS archive link are included.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 14, 2009 No Deaths From Vitamins or MineralsPoison Control Statistics Prove Supplements' Safety (OMNS, October 14, 2009) There was not even one death caused by a vitamin or dietary mineral in 2007, according to the most recent statistics available from the U.S. National Poison Data System. Confirmed: vitamin pills can cause death. Ordinary dietary supplements that contain vitamin A, E or beta-carotene increase mortality, a new study shows.
(Photo: Colourbox). Antioxidants, dietary supplements, vitamin pills – many people take them every day in the hope that they are good for their health. But a new Danish study of all relevant trials carried out around the world shows that taking antioxidants in the form of vitamin A, E and beta-carotene is a risky business for us. These antioxidants increase mortality – the risk of sudden death is higher for people who take these dietary supplements than for those who do not. The results of this study have just been published in the scientific journal Cochrane Library. The authorities and the chemists should take note of the new results and stop selling these pills as soon as possible. The Truth About Vitamins. Vitamins without doubt are vital to our health.
And it remains possible that high dose vitamin supplements will one day be proven to protect against illnesses like heart disease and cancer. Multivitamins Linked to Higher Death Risk in Older Women. If you think you’re doing your body good by popping a daily multivitamin or supplementing with extra vitamin C or E, think again.
A new study finds that taking supplements is linked to higher odds of early death, at least in older women. Jaakko Mursu, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota, reports with his colleagues in the Archives of Internal Medicine that women who took multivitamins were 6% more likely to die over a 19-year period, compared with women not taking them.