From: Scientific American
Vitamin Poppers May Make Less Healthful Choices
April 29, 2011
Scientific American:
It can be tough to keep up with dietary trends. Like eating eggs: good for you or bad? But one thing is certain. Taking a multivitamin is a healthy choice. Isn’t it? Not necessarily. Because researchers have found that people who take dietary supplements may make less healthful choices. The work appears in the journal Psychological Science. [Wen-Bin Chiou and Chao-Chin Yang, Ironic Effects of Dietary Supplementation: Illusory Invulnerability Created by Taking Dietary Supplements Licenses Health-risk Behaviors, link to come]
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These studies are hick science at best. Did they control for supplement purity? It’s too expensive to have pure product. Most on the market are junk but the issue is there are supplements that are pure and have what they say the have. Why don’t you distinguish this fact? It makes you look like you are being paid by the drug companies.
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