Nutritional Council’s Negative Statements Against Dietary Supplements

November 12, 2002

One again the media have been misled by the Nutritional Council’s warnings against dietary supplements.

In the news channel TV2, they stated: “Knockout for Q10 and Selenium”. This is severe disinformation of the population.

The Nutrition Council has via Steen Stender MD, reintroduced an article in The Lancet from July 6, 2002, which among others found that small doses of vitamin E, C and beta carotene had neither a beneficial or harmful effect on a risk group of cardiac patients. Q10 and Selenium are not mentioned at all in this study.

The media have uncritically settled with only listening to one party in this controversial field. -and they have not even discovered that this is a purely Danish news story. They have not wondered why this English study is not mentioned in foreign media at all.

But the aforementioned study on Vitamin C, E and Beta-carotene in small doses nevertheless showed that these had “no beneficial OR HARMFUL EFFECT”.
Firstly, there is no scientific basis for claiming that antioxidants do not work.

Secondly, it is misleading to use this study to claim that antioxidants have side effects.

The Danish Minister of Food also stated this summer that side effects of dietary supplements have never been registered in Denmark. This is similar to the status in other countries.

It is time for the media to wake up to the fact that they are being exploited in a game. A game that aims to control and regulate the population’s access to health-promoting dietary supplements, and censor the population’s access to free and open information about the health-promoting effects of these supplements.

By Vitality Council.

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