There's Good Reason Vitamins May Not Help Prevent Disease

There's a problem when a study comes out about the ineffectiveness of a vitamin in helping prevent disease. The problem is that nature did not intend on delivering a whole host of vitmamins via fruits and vegetables, only for science to try and snatch one of them out and use it for health benefits with no regard for the possibility that all of them work together in one perfect symbiotic balance. There are literally hundreds of nutrients in the whole food of any given fruit or vegetable, and like a well-played orchestra, each one has a use, a purpose, even if they are there to support the main attraction - i.e. a Vitamin C. Here is a report about how Vitamin D did not help the rate of breast cancer (from MedicalNewsToday.com)--

Women who took vitamin D and calcium supplements developed breast cancer at the same rate as those who did not take the supplements, according to a study by the Women's Health Initiative that is published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the Boston Globe reports. According to the Globe, the findings "contradic[t] conclusions from previous studies that hinted at benefits from vitamin D." The authors -- led by Rowan Chlebowski of the University of California-Los Angeles -- wrote, "The main findings do not support a causal relationship between calcium and vitamin D supplement use and reduced breast cancer incidence, despite the association observed in some epidemiological studies," adding, "Current evidence does not support their use in any dose to reduce breast cancer risk" (Cooney, Boston Globe, 11/12).

For the study, the researchers tracked 36,282 postmenopausal women for an average of seven years. Each participant received a combined pill of 1,000 milligrams of calcium and 400 international units of vitamin D. Over the course of the study, 528 of the 18,176 women -- or 2.9% -- who received the combined pill developed invasive breast cancer, compared with 546 of the 18,106 women -- or 3% -- who received a placebo (Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 11/12). According to the Globe, the difference between the groups is not considered statistically significant. Read the full report...

Bottom line: While this may suggest that Vitamin D does not help prevent breast cancer, it is not being suggested that if the vitamin D was consumed via whole food sources, that prevention would occur either. However, it is this author's opinion that a true test would involve the full gamut of nutrients that are present in any whole food that contains a moderate amount of Vitamin D in order to know the true benefit or not of consuming more of what Nature has provided for the support of good health. It is my guess that the motivation to use just one Vitamin may be just as much for reasons of turning Vitamins into controlled substances - i.e. drugs - for the financial gain of the few companies that control this market.

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