Interacting vitamins

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1. Is it any wonder we see such ill-health throughout the population, from the elderly who expect declining health as part of “aging” to the youth, those who should be in the prime of their lives, full of energy and vigor? Does it seem right that 1-in-4 school-age children are wearing glasses or contacts? We have children aged 6-19 with the arteries of 45-year-olds. Something isn’t right here! Yet we keep taking this vitamin or that and adding it to some new Frankenfood and putting a big label on it that says “Look how good for you I am! I have the vitamin-du-jour in me!” Worse yet, there are companies being paid (PAID!) to endorse this stuff as healthful (see: American Heart Association).

   The good nutritional information in their post aside, they’re assuming that a whole host of maladies all boil down to the problems that they point out. As a hypothesis, it is interesting, but they’re entirely unconvincing on this point. I find it interesting that modern nutrition has helped people live longer, yet, this nutrition has somehow also caused all these problems. Notice how they are talking about two different things – Essential vitamins and obesity/heart disease.

   Hunter-gatherers did not live in a nutritional paradise – read Jared Diamond.

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