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Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, January 19, 2010

(OMNS, January 19, 2010) There was not even one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new 174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology, shows zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin.

Additionally, there were no deaths whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all from blue cohosh, echinacea, ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava kava, St. John’s wort, valerian, yohimbe, Asian medicines, ayurvedic medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from creatine, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin, melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies.

Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008 from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or multimineral supplements. Two children died as a result of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other “Electrolyte and Mineral” category death was due to a man accidentally drinking sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener.

No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements. Period!!!!!

61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29 medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is “one of the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness tracking.”

Over half of the U.S. population takes daily nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable.

Look out!!! The media and medical mafia have widely reported, supplments are harmful and deadly!

If nutritional supplements are allegedly so “dangerous,” as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?

Those who wonder if the media are biased against vitamins may consider this: how many television stations, newspapers, magazines, and medical journals have reported that no one dies from nutritional supplements?

Reference:

Bronstein AC, Spyker DA, Cantilena LR Jr, Green JL, Rumack BH, Giffin SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS): 26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47, 911-1084. The full text article is available for free download. Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals, herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.

For Further Reading:

Download any Annual Report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers from 1983-2008 free of charge.

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource.

Editorial Review Board:

Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.
Damien Downing, M.D.
Michael Gonzalez, D.Sc., Ph.D.
Steve Hickey, Ph.D.
James A. Jackson, PhD
Bo H. Jonsson, MD, Ph.D
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.
Jorge R. Miranda-Massari, Pharm.D.
Erik Paterson, M.D.
Gert E. Shuitemaker, Ph.D.

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D., Editor and contact person. Email: omns@orthomolecular.org
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Next time you read, see or hear some propaganda piece on tv, radio or newspapers, funded and/or promoted by the MEDICAL MAFIA (namely: Big Pharma, the FDA, the AMA) warning you about the the serious risk of harm or death that consuming supplements can cause; remember the above article and don’t believe the hype, fear mongering and outright lies of big media and the MEDICAL MAFIA is spinning to you. In the last 5-10 years, Big Pharma has been pushing the FDA harder and harder to shut down your access to natural supplements and heavily regulate the entire supplement industry. The primary motivation for this, dasterdly duty is an attempt by Big Pharma to kill of the competition. And what a competition if truly is. On the one side with have Big Pharma’s lovely cocktail of synthetic chemical goodies and on the other hand we have the wonderful natural products created by the creator. We should be able to decide which of these 2 kinds of products we want.  Sensible people in the know, I’m sure would opt for the natural products over Big Pharma’s poison which merely masks symptoms. Natural health and holistic wellness is not something the medical mafia want for you or your family. The use and promotion of natural health products cuts into their bottom line. It creates an unwanted competition for people’s dollars. This is something that the medical mafia does not want or appreciate.

I wonder how many mainstream tv and radio news stations in american will blast the above study all over their airwaves. I’m willing to bet very few if any will publicize this info. Why is that you ask??? Well, because doing that would undermine the agenda of their most lucrative ad client….BIG PHARMA!!! In this world, money rules and fools lose!

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© 2010 Holistic Wellness Podcast-Michael Casals
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