Our poor nutrition and dietary supplements
When is necessary to buy dietary supplements?
"People in the United States spent close to $50 billion on vitamins and dietary supplements in 2021 attracted by the appeal of multivitamins and dietary supplements covering nutritional gaps in their diet. ".
Despite all, for some Americans, vitamins and supplements are a "waste of money." A "magic set of medications to keep you healthy" doesn't exist. Exercise and diet are essential.
For non-pregnant, otherwise healthy Americans, however, Northwestern Medicine scientists claim that taking vitamins is a waste of money because there is insufficient proof that they can help prevent cancer or cardiovascular disease.
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Patients frequently inquire, "What supplements should I take? " When we should all be adhering to the evidence-based recommendations, they are wasting their time and resources by believing there must be a special set of drugs that will keep them healthy.
When we should all be adhering to the evidence-based practices of eating well and exercising, "[patients are] squandering money and focus thinking there has to be a magic set of medications that would keep them healthy." — Dr. Jeffrey Linder, Dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and Chief of General Internal Medicine.
The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of national experts that frequently makes evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services, recently released new recommendations, which Linder and other Northwestern Medicine researchers supported in an editorial that was published today (June 21, 2022) in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
According to the USPSTF's new recommendations, which were based on a systematic review of 84 studies, there is "insufficient evidence" that taking multivitamins, paired supplements, or single supplements can help adults who are otherwise healthy and not pregnant avoid cancer and cardiovascular disease.
The task committee is not advocating against taking multivitamins, but there is a belief that if they were truly beneficial, we would already be aware of it, according to Linder. The task force expressly advises against taking vitamin E supplements since they have no net benefit in lowering mortality, cardiovascular disease, or cancer, and against taking beta-carotene supplements because of a potential increased risk of lung cancer.
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