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Hey California - time to start labeling another product as cancerous...

DrPizza

DrPizza

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Dietary supplements shown to increase cancer risk.

Older research: people who eat lots of veggies and fruits had a lower incidence of cancer. So, they thought, "let's see how much taking all those healthy vitamins and minerals help. I'll bet they also lower the risk of cancer." And...

They didn't. In fact, they're associated with an increased risk.

So, I expect to see on a bottle of Flintstones Chewables: "warning, this product is known to the state of California to increase the risk of cancer."
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edit: ooops, forgot link: http://www.newswise.com/articles/dietary-supplements-shown-to-increase-cancer-risk
 
But people who take supplements might also be lazy, as evidenced by their preference to take pills, rather than choke down lousy-tasting vegetables.




So much scientific advancement, and we still can't figure out a functional all-in-one food.

And the fact that I used the word "functional" to describe food probably says something about how I view food in general.
 
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well, fuck me in the ass.

what the hell am I going to do with all these quinuao pills that I just bought?
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The rationale for this is the supplements themselves are not regulated by the FDA and therefore have no exact quality control, there may be impurities in the pills themselves that increase the cancer risk.
 
describes research showing that over-the-counter supplements may actually increase cancer risk if taken in excess of the recommended dietary amount.
 
this has been known for years. Taking a single supplemental vitamin can overload the body into thinking that it has plenty of antioxidants, and it stops producing it's own. But the ingested vitamin isn't as broad spectrum as the body's own antioxidants.*

Hrm, maybe it hasn't been proven for years. Just lower variety of antioxidants in the body, and poor reaction to oxidative effects. Cancer is just the logical next step.

* Information is as remembered from lecture over 10 years ago.
 
My theory, if you are dumb enough to take supplements......well, you risk your LIFE (not just cancer). These companies that make them go by NO LAWS and pretty much put whatever they want into them.

It's a wild west.

It's pretty simple to me, eat healthy and get all the nutrition you need from the food.

John Oliver describes it best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA0wKeokWUU

PS. I used to work with a guy that was a big supplement believer/pusher (part of the pyramid scheme). His son died at 18 (dropped dead out of nowhere)......never figured out why, but he was a believer into this shit. Not saying supplements is what killed him. I just know he was very healthy and took them cause his father always taught him these things did miracles....
 
"dietary supplements" is COMPLETELY VAGUE and offers NO information or usefulness whatsoever.

Do multivitamins cause cancer?
Does fishoil cause cancer?
Do fat loss supplements cause cancer? (These, of all "dietary supplements" are hands down the most risky)
I take a caffeine pill for a dietary supplement, does that cause cancer?
 
jaedaliu said:
this has been known for years. Taking a single supplemental vitamin can overload the body into thinking that it has plenty of antioxidants, and it stops producing it's own. But the ingested vitamin isn't as broad spectrum as the body's own antioxidants.*

Hrm, maybe it hasn't been proven for years. Just lower variety of antioxidants in the body, and poor reaction to oxidative effects. Cancer is just the logical next step.

* Information is as remembered from lecture over 10 years ago.
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Might be more relevant if recent studies showed that antioxidants don't actually do anything.
 
Do warning labels cause cancer?

Seriously, though. Anything you consume has to be processed or metabolized by your body. In doing that, cells die and wear out. They get replaced with new cells. When cells reproduce, there are always transcription errors in the DNA. An error or combination of errors in the wrong places can affect the cells in a way that leads to out-of-control reproduction...and then you have cancer.

So, in the right amounts, practically anything you consume causes cancer.
 
Ichinisan said:
Do warning labels cause cancer?

Seriously, though. Anything you consume has to be processed or metabolized by your body. In doing that, cells die and wear out. They get replaced with new cells. When cells reproduce, there are always transcription errors in the DNA. An error or combination of errors in the wrong places can affect the cells in a way that leads to out-of-control reproduction...and then you have cancer.

So, in the right amounts, practically anything you consume causes cancer.
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And dietary supplements can trigger cell grown.
 
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