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Death Rate from Supplement Use

I thought you all would find it interesting that a short article was recently published in Townsend Letter, April 2010 that reported that according to the most recent information collected by the US National Poison Data System, (174 page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, published in the journal Clinical Toxicology), there was not even one death cause by a dietary supplement in 2008. Additionally, there were zero deaths from multiple vitamins, zero deaths from any of the B vitamins, zero deaths from vitamins A, C, D or E , zero deaths from minerals, and zero deaths from any other vitamin. There were not even any deaths reported from an herbal product or Ayurvedic medicines. No man, woman or child died from nutritional supplements.

Compare this to a report published in Journal of the American Medical Association that said that an estimated 2,216,000 (1,721,000 to 2,711,000) hospitalized patients had serious adverse drug reactions ( ADRs) and 106,000 (76,000 to 137,000) had fatal ADRs, making these reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death. And just to clarify, these were patients that received the correct doses of the correct drugs administered by the proper health care professional that still had so many ADR's that it is a leading cause of DEATH!

The article in Townsend Letter goes on to say the following:

“If nutritional supplements are allegedly so “dangerous”, as the FDA and the news media so often claim, then where are the bodies?”

Those who wonder if the media are biased against vitamins may consider this: how many television stations, newspapers, magazines, and medical journals have reported that no one dies from nutritional supplements?”

You can download the report by clicking below.

http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/NPDSPoisonData/AnnualReports/tabid/125/Default.aspx

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