Not a single death attributed to vitamins and minerals

Added 02.02.2010

The American Association of Poison Control Centers compiles an annual report listing all poisoning cases in the United States. This report is then published in the Journal of Clinical Toxicology. Guess how many people died from vitamin, mineral, amino acid or herbal supplement use in 2008? ZERO. That's right, not a single death was attributed to dietary supplments. And this included ayurvedic medicine, homeopathic remedies, Chinese medicine and all botanical herbs, such as cohosh, echinacea, ginseng, ginkgo biloba etc. Also included are supplements of algae, chondroitin, glucosamine, melatonin and many more.

how many died because of pharmaceutical drugs?

How many do you think died because of pharmaceutical drugs - even when correctly prescribed and taken? Over 100,000! In fact between 100,000 and 200,000 people die every year in the U.S. due to medications. Of these, analgesics (painkillers) are the most frequently involved in toxicity cases.

The fact that vitamins and minerals did not result in any deaths is hardly surprising; we, as well as many other researchers, have known this from the start. What is always shocking is how quick the mass media are to - without sound evidence - jump on the opportunity to discourage the use of supplements and warn us of their danger to our health! This is not the first time supplements have passed the test with flying colours; and yet the media still refrain from publishing results like these. Will their loyalties ever go beyond their pockets?

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Dr. Bo Nielsen's comments:

Once again it has been proven by sound and official data that taking nutritional supplements is 100% safe. The fact that no one has died due to taking nutritional supplements should make a lot of journalists and even some medical doctors ashamed of their statements warning the public against taking nutritional supplements. How often have we heard that taking supplements is risky, when in reality, we should be critical to the increasing use of pharmaceutical drugs, now even amongst children. These drugs often just treat the symptoms, not even the cause of the disease.

The public's minsinformation is partly due to the fact that bad news sells better than good news. But you also have to consider misinformation planted by parts of the pharmaceutical industry with the intention of turning attention away from the increasing number of studies which prove that many pharmaceutical drugs in fact cause tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths each year. Another reason to influence the media is to surpress the competitors (supplement industry) by claiming their products are unsafe. This is true for most multinational businesses including parts of the pharmaceutical industry. Who is the loser in this game? Most of the men, women or children, who have no chance of knowing what is true and what is false.