the doctor industry criticizes the competing multi-billion dollar
supplement industry? what a schocker!!!

will we next see the food industry subsidizing studies that say food
is better than supplements?

Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 27, 2007

23 YEARS OF DOCUMENTED VITAMIN SAFETY

(OMNS, Feb 27, 2007) Over a twenty-three year period, vitamins have been
connected with the deaths of a total of ten people in the United States.
Poison control statistics confirm that more Americans die each year from
eating soap than from taking vitamins.

Where are the bodies?
A 23-year review of US poison control center annual reports (1) tells a
remarkable and largely ignored story: vitamins are extraordinarily safe.

Annual deaths alleged from vitamins:

2005:  zero
2004:  two
2003:  two
2002:  one
2001:  zero
2000:  zero
1999:  zero
1998:  zero
1997:  zero
1996:  zero
1995:  zero
1994:  zero
1993:  one
1992:  zero
1991:  two
1990:  one
1989:  zero
1988:  zero
1987:  one
1986:  zero
1985:  zero
1984:  zero
1983:  zero

The zeros are not due to a lack of reporting. The American Association of
Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), which maintains the USAâ?Ts national
database of information from 61 poison control centers, has noted that
vitamins are among the 16 most reported substances. Even including
intentional and accidental misuse, the number of alleged vitamin fatalities
is strikingly low, averaging less than one death per year for more than two
decades. In 16 of those 23 years, AAPCC reports that there was not one
single death due to vitamins.

These statistics specifically include vitamin A, niacin (B-3), pyridoxine
(B-6), other B-complex, C, D, E, "other" vitamin(s), such as vitamin K, and
multiple vitamins without iron. Minerals, which are chemically and
nutritionally different from vitamins, have an excellent safety record as
well, but not quite as good as vitamins. On the average, one or two
fatalities per year are typically attributed to iron poisoning from gross
overdosing on supplemental iron. Deaths attributed to other supplemental
minerals are very rare. Even iron, although not as safe as vitamins,
accounts for fewer deaths than do laundry and dishwashing detergents.

References:

1. Annual Reports of the American Association of Poison Control Centers'
National Poisoning and Exposure Database (formerly known as the Toxic
Exposure Surveillance System). AAPCC, 3201 New Mexico Avenue, Ste. 330,
Washington, DC 20016. Download any report from1983-2005 at
http://www.aapcc.org/annual.htm free of charge. The "Vitamin" category is
usually near the end of the report.

For 2005 http://www.aapcc.org/Annual%20Reports/05report/2005%20Publsihed.pdf

For 2004
http://www.aapcc.org/Annual%20Reports/04report/AJEM%20-%20AAPCC%20Annual%20Repor
t%202004.pdf

For 2003
http://www.aapcc.org/Annual%20Reports/03report/Annual%20Report%202003.pdf

For any other year: http://www.aapcc.org/annual.htm

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine

Linus Pauling (the only two-time unshared Nobel Prize Winner) defined
orthomolecular medicine as "the treatment of disease by the provision of the
optimum molecular environment, especially the optimum concentrations of
substances normally present in the human body." 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:

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.
Harold D. Foster, Ph.D.
Bradford Weeks, M.D.
Carolyn Dean, M.D., N.D.
Erik Paterson, M.D.
Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.
Steve Hickey, Ph.D.

On the other hand patent rights allow for chequebook science (the practice
of funding, designing and interpreting the results of drug research),
exclusivity and inflated prices. Add to that an army of good-looking, slick
and foolish thinking sales reps and you have the world's most successful
business model - corporate drug dealing. While profitable, this model is
currently killing an estimated 800,000 people every year.

Food for thought.
From.........
Chris Beckett Dtp; A.D.I.
chris.beckett87@ntlworld.com

Over 7000 people each year die from bad physician handwritten prescription
legibility.
Jamffer

JAMA "studies" are the reason for thousands of deaths from transfats and
hydrogenated fats.
JAMA is "JUST" a magazine for hire, no different than any other tabloid you
get in the grocery store.