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<h3><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino
Acids or Herbs<br>
</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Poison Control Statistics Prove
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<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(OMNS, January 19, 2010) There was not even
one death caused by a dietary supplement in 2008, according to the most
recent information collected by the U.S. National Poison Data System. The new
174-page annual report of the American Association of Poison Control Centers,
published in the journal <i>Clinical Toxicology</i>, shows 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Additionally, there were no deaths
whatsoever from any amino acid or herbal product. This means no deaths at all
from blue <span class=SpellE>cohosh</span>, <span class=SpellE>echinacea</span>,
ginkgo biloba, ginseng, kava <span class=SpellE>kava</span>, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
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valerian, <span class=SpellE>yohimbe</span>, Asian medicines, ayurvedic
medicines, or any other botanical. There were zero deaths from <span
class=SpellE>creatine</span>, blue-green algae, glucosamine, chondroitin,
melatonin, or any homeopathic remedies. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Furthermore, there were zero deaths in 2008
from any dietary mineral supplement. This means there were no fatalities from
calcium, magnesium, chromium, zinc, colloidal silver, selenium, iron, or <span
class=SpellE>multimineral</span> supplements. Two children died as a result
of medical use of the antacid sodium bicarbonate. The other "Electrolyte
and Mineral" category death was due to a man accidentally drinking
sodium hydroxide, a highly toxic degreaser and drain-opener. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>No man, woman or child died from nutritional
supplements. Period. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>61 poison centers provide coast-to-coast
data for the U.S. National Poison Data System, which is then reviewed by 29
medical and clinical toxicologists. NPDS, the authors write, is "one of
the few real-time national surveillance systems in existence, providing a
model public health surveillance system for all types of exposures, public
health event identification, resilience response and situational awareness
tracking." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Over half of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> population takes daily
nutritional supplements. Even if each of those people took only one single
tablet daily, that makes 154,000,000 individual doses per day, for a total of
over 56 billion doses annually. Since many persons take more than just one
vitamin or mineral tablet, actual consumption is considerably higher, and the
safety of nutritional supplements is all the more remarkable. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If nutritional supplements are allegedly so
"dangerous," as the FDA and news media so often claim, then where
are the bodies? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>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? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Reference:</span></b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Bronstein AC, <span class=SpellE>Spyker</span>
DA, Cantilena LR <span class=SpellE>Jr</span>, Green JL, <span class=SpellE>Rumack</span>
BH, <span class=SpellE>Giffin</span> SL. 2008 Annual Report of the American
Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System (NPDS):
26th Annual Report. Clinical Toxicology (2009). 47, 911-1084. The full text
article is available for free download at <a
href="http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf" target="_blank"
linkindex=3>http://www.aapcc.org/dnn/Portals/0/2008annualreport.pdf</a> .
Vitamins statistics are found in Table 22B, journal pages 1052-3. Minerals,
herbs, amino acids and other supplements are in the same table, pages 1047-8.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>For Further <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
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</body>
</html>
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