Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Vitamin Pills: A False Hope?

So for this blog post I had to read about an article about hope, so I looked at the NY Times and found this article about false hope in vitamins. In this article they talked about how americans spend so much money on dietary supplements that do not always work, and people say that taking vitamins will help reduce this and that, but in recent tests the finding are that vitamins are not doing much at all. It has also been told that your body needs those essential nutrients that you would normally not get in your average meal, so vitamins would help but not all the hype that has been told about them like being able to stop or prevent cancer or other major health issues. So all I have to say is that vitamins will help with the running of your body, but it will not prevent some of the huge health risks.

PARKER-POPE, TARA. "Vitamin Pills: A False Hope?." New York Times 16 02 2009 17 Feb 2009 . Http://nytimes.com/2009/02/17/health/17well.html

1 comment:

Emma said...

thats really interesting, now i might have to start to question all the vitamins i have in the morning, it would be really sad if they haven't been doing anything for me.