More Vitamins – Less Drugs

A Relatively Inexpensive yet Potentially Powerful Way to Improve One’s Health

As you age, your immune system weakens, leaving you more vulnerable to infection and degenerative disease. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that up to one third of all elderly adults in the U.S. fail to get the amounts and types of food necessary to meet essential nutrient and energy requirements, leaving them open to a wide range of infectious and degenerative diseases, including the #1 killer heart disease, osteoporosis and various forms of cancer.

These findings have prompted some scientists to recommend that all adults, and especially members of the elderly population, take a multivitamin supplement daily to help fight off disease and deep the immune system functioning optimally.

A study presented at an October 2003 meeting in Washington, D.C. suggests that daily multivitamin use by older adults is “a relatively inexpensive yet potentially powerful way to improve one’s health,” and that the health effects from vitamins are particularly important for improving cardiovascular health and immunity. The study also suggests that over a five-year period, taking a multivitamin can lead to considerable savings associated with health care costs – more than $1.6 billion over the next five years, even after adjusting for the cost of providing vitamins to every elderly person in the U.S.

This study reviewed more that 250 published studies on various aspects of diet and nutrition, from case series and reports on single vitamins to randomized, controlled trials that involved tens of thousands of subjects.

The research studied the effects of taking vitamins on five specific diseases prevalent as we age:

Also included in the study vitamins improving immune function, potential health care savings that could result from avoiding hospitalizations, nursing home stays and home health services associated with infectious diseases such as pneumonia and septicemia.

More Vitamins, Less Drugs

Also, “The evidence strongly indicates that daily use of multivitamins by the elderly is nearly risk-free and is potentially associated with significant health improvements.

For the past forty years, the American Medical Association’s official stance is that diet does not play any appreciable role in health and disease.

Global health care costs are spiraling out of control, and dangerous side-effects of many drugs are becoming more apparent: Research provides ample evidence of dangers of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), including over-the-counter varieties such as Ibuprofen and Advil that many people use every day. Thousands die in hospital annually due to drug reactions or dosing errors. One pharmaceutical company executive even admitted recently that most of his firm’s products “work in (only) 30 to 50 percent of people.”

Conclusion

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Health Questions?

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