Give me strength - dire article

[helvella]

Vitamin myths debunked: what should you be taking?

theguardian.com/lifeandstyl...

[helvella Administrator]

My golly gosh - the author: "Ann Robinson has been a GP for 16 years"!

[RedApple Administrator in reply to helvella]

Why keep your ignorance in the surgery... shout it in The Guardian for everyone to snigger at

[helvella Administrator in reply to RedApple]

Brill!

[Pastille]

I see how they picked the youngest, healthiest people they could possibly find. At least it was responded to by someone well informed

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to Pastille]

And from the looks of it in some cases - the stupidest!

[humanbean]

A new report says we spend more on vitamins than painkillers – but are supplements really effective?

The implication of the above is that spending more on vitamins than painkillers is a bad thing. Why? I must be being thick because I don't see the problem.

I spend less on over-the-counter painkillers now my vitamins and minerals are much closer to optimal.

[humanbean in reply to humanbean]

P.S. I agree with helvella - it is a dreadful article. It has no substance to it and is just a puff piece with lots of padding.

[gabkad in reply to humanbean]

Entirely misleading. Stupid garbage. And they quote a bunch of dough-heads. Makes it even worse.

[gabkad]

It is to dispair! Medical doctors have no training whatsoever in nutrition unless they take it upon themselves to learn. This one clearly has not learned anything. Woe to her patients. Good to see input from some very well informed commenters.

[gabkad]

Sorry. Only one commenter has knowledge. Seems the article didn't elicit too much response from readers. And the doofuses who were asked for their opinion on taking vitamins? .........sigh.........

[bluebug]

I do like the commenter who took the doctor to task. 😃

[Fruitandnutcase]

Give me strength - what a load of rubbish, right now I'm tucking into my daily after breakfast assortment of pills for my blood pressure and arthritis plus an assortment of vitamins and I'll carry on doing so until big pharma ( with the help of stupid articles like this) eventually manage to get the government to ban the sale of vitamins.

I couldn't believe this one - Adam, 38, recruitment business owner 'I don’t take vitamins regularly. I’ve probably tried vitamin C and Berrocca – it’s meant to be good for a hangover, but I’m not sure if it worked or not.

Probably tried? He either has or hadn't. He wants to try something to improve his memory if he can't remember what he took and isn't sure if it worked or not. Grrr!

[greygoose]

Thanks for the laugh, everyone! I needed that this morning.

I did like this comment :

"A short bout of generalisation, followed by 'interviews' of pitiful superficiality. I'm not a fan of the 'what is the Guardian coming to?' faction, but this wouldn't get into a school magazine."

[ann_g_k]

'... that the elderly are suckers for products promising pain-free joints and eternal youth'. How insulting is that?

The article is lacking content and makes far too many sweeping statements. If this landed on my editorial desk it would be returned to the author forthwith with an instruction to carry out some rigorous research to back to currently unsupported claims.

The Guardian is supposed to be the 'guardian' of news and comment - it's becoming an unintelligent vehicle for soundbites and sloppy thinking. I've become increasingly aggravated by its increasing hipster approach liberally punctuated by the F word. I was brought up to believe that if you need to use the F word then you have too limited a vocabulary.

The sad thing is that Guardian readers are purportedly from the educated sector of society who are, or who aspire to become, societal leaders. If they swallow this (no pun intended) nonsense, heaven help us.

Rant over...

[Hillwoman in reply to ann_g_k]

I find that when I lose my balance and stub my toe/bash a body part (several times a day - I have PA) only the F word will do to alleviate the pain. Not even vitamins will help.

I am a Guardian reader of several decades standing, but I agree that the online version has in some aspects - the 'lifestyle' section and some of the more instant political comment - become very dumbed-down. 'Clickbait' is the term, and it's written to attract page hits for the sake of advertisers. Like other papers, the Graun is more and more dependant on this kind of revenue.

[Angel_of_the_North]

Did you notice how bad (for a non-hypo definition of bad) the photos of most of the non-vitamin takers looked compared with their given ages?