Anti-Oxidant and Multivitaminic Treatments

If you look at this photo, you will surely notice the young and beautiful body of the woman. If we think about the age, we will suppose that the model of the sculpture was not older than 20 years since women made early their first children and hardly is possible that the model gave birth to one.

It is surely an ideal of youth and, with it, of the best period in the life of every woman when she still has not particular worries and responsibilities.

In fact, the body of this sculpture is a Roman copy of a Greek original. But this copy was made to remain in eternity the presumed beauty and youth of a rich woman who ordered this ideal image of herself (marble was very expensive, and she had to pay a fortune for this statue).

If you look at her face, you will notice that it's the face of much more older person.

Well, as you see, nothing changed in the mentality of humans with the time that passes. Two thousand years after the death of that woman, we think so much what we have to do to remain as young as possible as long as possible. We do not order marble statues to "live" for eternity, we want to be young today. And the passwords are "Anti-Oxidants" and "Vitamins".

Do you take them for different reasons? I answer Yes. I can't live without my Multi- because I begin to "tremble" without Magnesium and Potassium first of all. Even if my diet is rich of vegetables: I like to eat salads with olive oil and balsamic vinegar of Modena. And, then, I try to buy aliments of good quality.

Here I want to publish some interesting facts I recently found in internet. Maybe, if you did not read it before, they will change something in your thoughts about the health, too.

Two large trials of antioxidants were set up...One was in Finland, where 30,000 participants at high risk of lung cancer were recruited, and randomized to receive beta-carotene, vitamin E, or both or neither. Not only were there more lung cancers among the people receiving the supposedly protective beta-carotene supplements, compared with placebo, but this vitamin group also had more deaths overall, from both lung cancer and heart disease.

 The results of the other trial were almost worse...Two groups of people at high risk of lung cancer were studied. Half were given beta-carotene and vitamin A, while the other half got placebo. 18000 participants were due to be recruited throughout its course, and the intention was that they would be followed up for an average of six years; but in fact, the trial was terminated early, because it was considered unethical to continue it. Why? The people having the antioxidant tablets were 46% more likely to die from lung cancer, and 17% more likely to die of any cause, than the people taking the placebo pills.

 Since then the placebo-controlled trial data on antioxidant vitamin supplements has continued to give negative results, The most up-to-date Cochrane reviews of the literature pool...show that antioxidant supplements are either ineffective or perhaps even actively harmful.

Most recently, a Cochrane review looked at the number of deaths, from any cause, in all the placebo-controlled randomized trials on antioxidants that have ever been performed, describing the experiences of 230,000 people in total. This showed overall that, antioxidant vitamin pills do not reduce deaths, and in fact they may increase your chance of dying.

vitamin D level: normal range is between 30 and 100 nmol/L (though readings below 50 are still not optimal for bone and overall health). (Source)