Vitamin supplements "Are a waste of money"

By: Roberto Mendez

This is what experts are saying today about supplements, after the publication of up to 3 articles on this subject in the Annals of Internal Medicine magazine :

"Enough is enough: Stop spending money on supplements of vitamins and minerals"

These authors have concluded that these supplements do not work for literally anything, not to prevent chronic diseases or to avoid death prematurely, they can even be harmful if you already have an adequate nutrition. Therefore that of  "at least you know it will not hurt you" you can forget it now. For these experts use is not justified, and, not only that, it is advisable to avoid them.

"This message is especially true in the general population, they consume these supplements without clear evidence of micronutrient deficiency, and come to represent the majority of users and consumers of such supplements in the United States and other countries "

One of the co-authors of these studies, Dr. Edgar Miller, professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Ecole Public Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg, in Baltimore, further states that the most convenient (and of common sense, in my opinion) is that people "spend money on healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, low fat dairy products " and do exercise, of course.

To give you an idea, in the U.S. alone, the "waste" in these substances becomes about 28 billion dollars annually. A bit silly when studies say they are worthless and may even harm us.

(Read the whole article *spanish)

Source: www.medciencia.com