Dietary Enigmas
asking questions about our diet
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Vitamins – may stave off illness
Oh boy – how long have people being arguing over this one. The Medics and the Pharmaceutical lobby say all you need is drugs for health but the alternative view that good quality food and where necessary vitamin and mineral supplementation is the right approach to take. So which one is right – i know what works for me.- a good Low GI diet first and foremost with minimal processed food
- supplementation of key vitamins and minerals known to be deficient in our diets and lifestyles
- short term use of pharmaceutical drugs only where essential – antibiotics etc. and only for short periods
At last the real research is showing the truth. The pharmaceutical led research into vitamins is always going to be suspect as they ahve a vested interest in proving it doesn’t work and the invariably use synthetics which we know don’t work. See below:
By Steve Connor
Saturday, 16 February 2008A chronic shortage of vitamins and other “micronutrients” in the diet may be responsible for triggering many of the ills of modern life such as cancer, obesity and the degenerative diseases of ageing.
Professor Bruce Ames, of the University of California, Berkeley, who invented one of the standard tests for cancer-causing chemicals, said many people’s diets were deficient in one or more of the 40 micronutrients essential for a healthy life.
Taking dietary supplements in the form of vitamin pills could help to counteract many of the disorders associated with ageing, Dr Ames told the American Association meeting.
He said many people on a high-calorie diet in the West or poor diet in developing countries were short of micronutrients and this caused the body to go into an emergency “triage” response in which it tried to keep its metabolism in balance by a process of compensation. This ensures immediate survival, but the consequences are an increase in DNA damage, which causes future cancers, a lowered immune defence, and a decay of the mitochondrial “power plants” of the cells, which causes accelerated ageing,” he said.
He said a shortage of minerals, vitamins and other nutrients could also be partly responsible for obesity.
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