Friday, January 17, 2014

Flawed Research Used to Attack Multivitamin Supplements


Two flawed studies, a rehashed review, and an editorial published in the December 17th issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine have attempted to discredit the value of multivitamin supplements.

Both of the studies were plagued by grievous methodological flaws.

In one of the studies, subjects were given low-quality, low-potency multivitamin supplements. Treatment adherence rates and drop-out rates were horrendous in the studies. Nevertheless, mainstream sources are using these reprehensible studies to undermine dietary supplements.

The first study examined the cognitive effects of low-potency multivitamin supplementation in aging male participants. 2 Not surprisingly, the conclusions in the present analysis question the value of multivitamin benefits for cognition .... http://www.globalresearch.ca