Vitamins more dangerous than secondhand smoke?

The foundation of the program was inherently flawed, similar to the pseudo science they use to plead their case. Important facts and studies that contradict the perspective the program took were completely ignored in favor of advancing the programs political agenda, in an attempt to set the stage to regulate vitamins as drugs. There is plenty of real science that contradicts the programs claims, which was omitted. The most recent statistics available from the U.S. National Poison Data System showed zero deaths from multiple vitamins; zero deaths from any of the B vitamins; zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D, or E; and zero deaths from any other vitamin (1). Furthermore, there were zero deaths from any dietary mineral supplement. If nutritional supplements are allegedly killing us, as Professor Jackson and his colleagues suggest, then where are the dead bodies?

Thank goodness for those people who saw through this stupid attempt to discredit vitamins. This is another attempt by the major pharma companies to push their cause. In the US they created the H1N1 virus scare and convinced the FDA and government to approve the use of vaccines that had passed their use by date. They got the president to call this an emergency situation yet to date no statistics have been produced to show what people in some of these countries have actually died from. In my opinion the basic vitamins A,C and E along with COQ10 will go a long way to strengthening ones immunity to many viruses. I know that first hand as it is what I use as I travel through many of the so called heavily infected countries of the world without harm. I used to have a doctor that provided me with a lot of tamiflu capsules becuase he knew of my travel and the fact I would be couped up on plane for hours. I took one lot and the many side effects were just too much for me to cope with. I felt worse for wear and then switched to vitamins. I have not looked back.

It is great to get so many sensible responses to the TV3 program on Vitamins can Kill.
With all of the Professor's posturing and grandstanding, he couldn't give even one example of anyone being killed by taking Vitamins.
Water can kill....that doesn't mean we shouldn't drink it or swim in it.
Prof. Jackson has made himself a laughing stock in scientific circles. He seems to be quite incompetent when it comes to nutritional science and physiological chemistry. He should stick to epidemiology which is a specialty quite unrelated to biochemistry.
It should be obvious to all that the program was unprofessional and scientifically flawed from the outset. The number of people involved in the research was a statistically invalid sample.
He claimed that people received all the nutrition from their everyday food. He ignored the effects of depleted soils, food refinement, processing, pesticide residues and chemicalisation.
The values he used were based on the FDA minimum daily allowance of nutritionals which borders on malnutrition especially when applied to the sick, the hard working, the overburdened and the stressed.
Anybody with an ounce of common sense can see through this scam which was designed to panic people away from the essential nutritionals they so sorely need.

Congratulations to those commentators who have defended vitamin supplements.TV3 should be ashamed of itself,picking on easy soft targets like supplement manufacturers.Gutless,too!Why not go for the real killers.Iatrogenics is a leading cause of death,yet totally ignored by our cowardly media.

Shocking!

How can this man call himself a scientist? His peer review paper show nothing on nutrition,supplementation..

He used the Cochrane study that has been debunked and refuted! Here is just how that study (vit A & E increase mortality) came to its biased conclusion.

It's easy: The researchers considered 452 studies on these vitamins, and they threw out the 405 studies where nobody died! That left just 47 studies where subjects died from various causes (one study was conducted on terminal heart patients, for example). From this hand-picked selection of studies, these researchers concluded that antioxidants increase mortality

These scientists claimed to be studying the effects of vitamins on mortality, right? They were conducting a meta-analysis based on reviewing established studies. But instead of conducting an honest review of all the studies, they arbitrarily decided to eliminate all studies in which vitamins prevented mortality and kept people alive! They did this by "excluding all studies in which no participants died."

Brilliant huh? if anyone out there has done year one stats, you might remember that stats can show anything you want.
here a humorous example from Mike Adams

Aspirin and erections?

let's say that I took a look at 100 studies reviewing the effects of aspirin on erections. And let's suppose I arbitrarily decide to eliminate all the studies involving men, leaving only studies involving women. I could then announce -- with the evidence to back it up -- that "Aspirin Linked with Drop in Erections!" Why? Because nobody in the groups I look at had any erections at all. Sure, they're all women, but that's beside the point

This is all about the U.N.'s Codex alimentarius and about control, NOT safety.

Vitmains are not drugs. Period. the only reason to label essential nutrients as drugs is for regulation by the highly profitable/powerfull 'bottom of the cliff' biomedical approach of health.

Wake up NZzzz

When is the media going to wake up to the fact that by airing such messages it is being used as puppets by big and powerful drug companies?

Fact: Drug companies wield a lot of power and rely on a sick population in order to make inordinate profit.
Fact: Public demand for natural health is eating into their profits.
Fact: Natural minerals and vitamins cannot be patented; they belong to everyone in the world. Therefore drug companies cannot claim exclusivity to them unless they can persuade governments to regulate their manufacture and use and this is what is happening.
Fact: A sick population is an easily controlled population.
Fact: If people stay healthy and well, living into their 90’s, the government has a problem with too many pensioners.
Fact: There is far too much interference into how we run our lives. Taking supplements of any sort should be a matter of choice. A coroner reported just last year that he has never seen a death as a result of supplements yet many thousands of people die around the world every year from ‘tested prescription medicines’, a fact that barely rates a mention.
Fact: It is not long ago that people were ‘bled’ when they were sick, had heated glasses applied to their skin in order to draw out fever, were given agonising electric shocks when mentally ill, were purged mercilessly after giving birth and a hospital doctor was ridiculed for insisting on hands being washed after examining patients with severe infections in order to reduce childbirth deaths. This was the science of the day but time has proven it to be completely wrong.

Now we are told that only tested prescription medicines should pass our lips. More control; more regulation; more power to the drug companies.

We can no longer obtain vital minerals and vitamins from our food. In fact our food is not only lacking in vital ingredients it is also loaded with toxic chemicals that are manufactured by branches of the pharmaceutical companies. For years we have been fed toxic fluoride that keeps the population passive but it is only recently that mothers have been warned not to use fluoridated water to mix infant formula.

An increasing number of doctors are now seeing the light and are promoting supplements as necessary for health. My husband and I have taken supplements for thirty years and no-one can believe that we are of the age that we are. Your body reflects the ‘fuel’ you give it and in this day and age supplements are vital if you wish to stay looking young, feeling young and full of energy.

In the USA today it is a sad fact that a large proportion of elderly people spend so much on their drugs that they cannot afford to feed themselves properly. Is this what we want for NZ?

It is time our politicians educated themselves in the area of natural health and realised how they are being brain washed by big business in order to regulate the population. Furthermore, our national health budget is no longer adequate yet if people were encouraged to take their health into their own hands government wouldn’t need to spend such an inordinate amount on National Health. Unfortunately government seems to be doing the exact opposite by clamping down on natural remedies that have been used for thousands of years and thus funnelling us all along the road of prescription medicine only.

The NZSN of Naturopaths strongly opposes the suggestion that Vitamins are dangerous. Scientific research is always evolving. Recommendations Naturopaths made thirty years ago for example, to increase fruit and vegetable intake to help prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease were not at that time backed by scientific studies. But now scientific studies unquestionably support the link between higher vegetable and fruit intake and a decrease in the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Scientific studies currently are producing conflicting results regarding the use of vitamins and mineral supplementation.This as part of the scientific process and not an end point. Professor Wiseman from the World Cancer Research Fund commented “we simply do not know enough about what the effect (of vitamin supplements) will be for the general population to confidently predict the balance of risks and benefits” This means there is no conclusive evidence for the harm of vitamins. The quality of the supplements used in scientific studies is rarely noted. Dietary supplements of inferior quality if used in scientific studies could arguably contain fillers and binders that may be detrimental to health; this could affect the results in that it may not be the vitamin but other substances that affect health. NZSN are aware of the dangers of overdosing on dietary supplements, and prescribe to avoid such dangers.In NZ Medsafe and the NZ Food Standards Authority ensures the public is guided regarding safe doses. The news item may be detrimental to health by causing unnecessary alarm. Many may indeed stop taking vitamins. This would undo much of the good work by the government in promoting vitamins intake i.e. cessation of the B vitamin; folic acid by women wanting a baby, this may have tragic outcomes. Incidentally Naturopaths recommended folic acid prior to conception and during pregnancy many years before the scientific studies backed the use of it to prevent birth defects.

Prof Rod Jackson is in the pockets of the global fascist elite whether he realises it or not. The UN, WHO, FAO criminals love people like him because he's a frontman for them and their aim to have Codex Alimentarius ratified by the end of this year which would make all health options outside medical drugs illegal and a criminal offence. But that is not all... The same Nazi global setup that controls the UN and WHO intends to forcefully administer lethal vaccines to most of the world's population during this Northern Winter, by injecting them with live viruses and squalene adjuvants (which is the additive that caused the Gulf war syndrome) They will cause firstly an immune depression, secondly, a widespread autoimmune response when the body attacks it's own organs and finally, a cytokine storm will occur when an overwhelming number of white blood cells cause fatal blockages in the lungs.... which is exactly what the WHO wants to happen in order to wipe most of mankind off the face of the earth.
So....you are all being led to believe that vitamins and minerals are a danger to our health??
GET REAL!!
This program is a diversionary tactic to take our attention off the REAL problems which are:
1.The ratification of the Codex Alimentarius Regulations which comes into effect on December 31st 2009.
2. The forced lethal injections against a fraudulent pandemic in order to cause massive global genocide.
THAT IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT...not vitamins and mineral supplements.

I agree with Emanuel, Carol, Erik, Lars,Alie etc.We are expected to eat food that has been poisoned with all sorts of dangerous chemicals,like Asparthame, MSG etc ,etc. and then they tell us that naturel supplements like vitamins and minerals are dangerous !! The pharmaceutical companies are just after the money they can make with THEIR poisons. I have suffered from ME/CFS for about 15 years and apart from some medication I rely on vitamins, supplements and herbal remedies, which keep me going thank you very much. I have enough trouble keeping away from the "permitted" addives ( mainly poisons ) in food the way it is sold in the shops nowadays .I hope this government has a bit more sense then the previous one. But then , what do you expect from these people on the top, most of them make dicisions with alcohol in their blood which is freelee available to them. If we can't look after our own health, who will ?

The guidelines for vitamins and minerals as recommended by the FDA are minimum levels and are never adequate for active, growing, working, mothering, pregnant, adolescent and infant humans. In fact nearly all people are deficient in essential nutritional elements, because most of our food is now grown in micro and trace element depleted soils. On top of that, our food has been so refined, processed and chemicalised that we all end up being prematurely ill and chronically diseased.
Add to this the terrible death toll caused by medical drugs and you have a recipe for premature death, which occurs in the thousands in New Zealand alone. Against that, there is not even one proven case of a death from supplements. So, Mr Professor, stop being the devil's advocate. You should be ashamed of yourself. You make out that you are a scientist. You're not even an excuse for one. Not that I doubt your credentials, but you are using them to instil fear on behalf of the medical industry, which is afraid of being exposed for the rampant disease and death they cause.
The professor is a front guy who'll be well rewarded by the medical industry for the misinformation he's able to screw the masses with. He either never learned physiological chemistry properly, or he's a twister that shouldn't be trusted. Take your pick.

Emanuel van den Bemd ANZMLT
Medical Laboratory Scientist