Vitamin pills have healthy role to play

I HAVE noted with interest the frequent articles in many newspapers recently about the dangers of vitamin pills.

Vitamin pills have healthy role to play

As it is now formally admitted that about 300,000 people worldwide die from taking medical drugs pushed by doctors, it is disgraceful that people are highlighting the ‘dangers’ of vitamin pills.

Paté, whiskey, fluoride, aspartame and aspirin, for instance, are far more dangerous than any vitamin pill when taken in huge amounts. But sensible people don’t do that and those products are not under attack by anybody (except occasionally, feebly, by the health conscious).

This is obviously part of the same shameless movement that is trying to get health supplements as good as banned at EU level without any democratic process whatever. Continue to support people looking after their own health by taking sensible amounts of supplements.

That will make them less dependent on the ‘Ministry for Illness’ that Mary Harney is messing around with.

And no, I have no connection with the supplements industry.

RD Banton

Kevin Street

Tinahely

Co Wicklow

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