> No, all vitamins are snake oil. I wouldn't go that far. Vitamin supplements, perhaps, in most cases, but not vitamins themselves; they are essential, and have to come from somewhere.
> Scientific research has proven that vitamins do not make you > healthier, at least in places like the United States where people get > far too many nutrients, rather than not enough. And this is the key: unless your diet is severely skewed for some reason, you do not have to worry about vitamins. But that's an important "unless". Calling vitamin supplements - or, worse, vitamins themselves - "snake oil" is going too far. Full-on vegans, for example, have to walk a fairly careful diet line to avoid coming down with deficiency diseases; they aren't all vitamin-related (protien amino-acid balance is another important aspect that comes to mind), but some of them are. Scurvy was once a real issue, and still is in certain cases (moderately rare but common enough to be worth thinking about). And, near the end of her life, my mother developed food allergies taking out a large enough swath of her diet that she needed supplements of at least a few members of the B vitamin complex. Any of these would be (would have been, in the last case - she's long dead, now) severely disserved by "all vitamins are snake oil". /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
