Well, you are entitled to your opinion ;-)
According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poisoning and Exposure Database: "Over a twenty-four year period, vitamins have been connected with the deaths of a total of eleven people in the entire United States. Poison control statistics confirm that more Americans die each year from eating soap than from taking vitamins."
Annual deaths alleged from vitamins:
2006: one
2005: zero
2004: two
2003: two
2002: one
2001: zero
2000: zero
1999: zero
1998: zero
1997: zero
1996: zero
1995: zero
1994: zero
1993: one
1992: zero
1991: two
1990: one
1989: zero
1988: zero
1987: one
1986: zero
1985: zero
1984: zero
1983: zero
more:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/vitsafety.htmlNow, I realize that this site will raise a red flag with you, but the official Poison Control statistics are posted on it. Pharmaceutical drugs cause far, far more deaths than vitamins.
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Reports of Drug Side Effects Rise, U.S. Study Finds
By Michelle Fay Cortez
"Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. regulators received more than twice as many reports of deadly or debilitating side effects from drug treatment in 2005 as they did seven years before, a study found.
Fifty-one drugs accounted for almost half of the 467,809 cases reported during the eight years covered, researchers wrote in today's Archives of Internal Medicine. Painkillers, such as Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s generic oxycodone, and drugs that alter the immune system, including Johnson & Johnson's Remicade, were linked to a disproportionate number of deaths, which almost tripled in 2005 compared with 1998.
2005 Deaths
More than 15,000 people died from drug reactions in 2005, compared with 5,519 people in 1998, the researchers said. Most of the fatalities were linked to generic pain pills, including oxycodone, fentanyl, morphine and acetaminophen, which is sold without a prescription by Johnson & Johnson as Tylenol.
A total of 89,482 serious side effects from drug treatment were reported to the FDA in 2005, more than 2 1/2 times the 34,966 reported in 1998, the study found. The number of serious reactions increased four times faster than the total number of prescriptions written for patient use outside the hospital. About 1,500 drugs had reported side effects."
more:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=atZc0BAmATBM&refer=us*****
FDA Claims "Food Supplement" Deaths; Hides Details from the Public
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, October 9, 2008
"(OMNS, October 9, 2008) "Dietary supplements cause 600 'adverse events'", reported USA Today on 22 Sept, 2008. In an article that looks much like an official US Food and Drug Administration press release, it said that "Serious side effects from the use of food supplements resulted in 604 "adverse-event" reports - a list that includes at least five deaths - through the first six months that such accounts have been required by law." (1)
Good grief! Looks like all those supplement-popping health nuts really are nuts after all. Food supplements simply must be dangerous! Or are they?
Later on in the article, far from the headline, USA Today conceded that "An adverse event can be anything from a concern that a supplement isn't working to a serious illness that follows consumption." And, FDA spokesman Michael Herndon admitted that of the five deaths and 85 hospitalizations reported, "Some of these deaths were likely due to underlying medical conditions."
By comparison, FDA acknowledges that prescription drugs resulted in 482,154 adverse-event reports in the year 2007. That is nearly 400 times as many adverse events from prescription drugs per six-month period. And this much higher number does not include over-the-counter drugs, a striking omission. Many non-prescription drugs, such as Tylenol (acetaminophen), are a long way from safe. Liver toxicity from acetaminophen poisoning is by far the most common cause of acute liver failure in the United States. Acetaminophen accounted for 51% of all acute liver failure cases in 2003. (3) Indeed, the Associated Press previously reported that common drug dangers are so bad that "Harmful reactions to some of the most widely used medicines - from insulin to a common antibiotic - sent more than 700,000 Americans to emergency rooms each year."
more:
http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v04n13.shtml
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