Ignorantly Foolish Question Of ...

Are vitamins a scam?

Of course vitamins are a scam. We've known (OK, figured) this for yrs. & yrs. (Never question this reporter's instincts: We are older, wiser & more experienced than virtually anyone else using the iNternet. Modest, too.)

And another fucking clue, consuming drones: 90% of the crap in the health & beauty aisles in corporate supermarkets & chain drugstores is a scam. (Another proof of Sturgeon's Law, but as the saying went, we don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.) Or, anything a corporation wants to sell is to insure its profits, not to benefit the consuming sheep (you) in any way. Consider yourselves lucky if you shove American consumer products down your gaping maw & you're still alive. (Or unlucky. We know some wish only for death's sweet release.)

Not only a scam, potentially bad for you.

High doses of folic acid have been associated with higher risk of precancerous colon polyps. Too much beta carotene has been linked to lung cancer. The chances of dying for people who take antioxidant supplements have been found to be 5 percent higher than non-users. As the New York Times pointed out in a 2009 article, “the selling point of antioxidant vitamins is that they mop up free radicals, the damaging molecular fragments linked to aging and disease.” The problem is that your body actually needs free radicals in order to fight off illnesses. Wipe them out and you may have just said good-bye to your body’s natural defense system.

Just one example of what crap all of this is, vitamins, supplements, whatever. And, it turns out the vitamin industry is as poorly regulated as the Mormon-dominated nutritional/dietary supplements industry. (Here, one need only apply Bouffant's Law: "If it's Mormon, it's a scam.")