Thread: Vitamin Tablets and their ilk.
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Unread 24 Apr 2007, 17:38   #13
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Re: Vitamin Tablets and their ilk.
I find it difficult to take most longitudinal studies seriously when it comes to questions of general health. If it's very specific then maybe over a long enough/wide enough study you can probably prove some really banal point ("breathing smoke into your lungs thirty or forty times a day for most of your life probably doesn't lead to everlasting life") but when it comes to something more specific and subtle (e.g. effects of taking an additional 100mg of Vitamin C a day) they seem less useful, at least as a one-off. Genetic differences, random lifestyle things and dietary variations are simply too wide to control for, even in a massive experiment. If something like (say) clinical depression is linked to how many times your mother masturbated with her left hand during gestation but only if she had carrots more than three times a week then it might be that a lot of studies in place now are wasting their time. Not that is that likely, admittedly.

Anyway it seems fairly obvious what's good and what's bad for you. Exercise moderately, don't drink a litre of gin for breakfast and for god's sake, put the fork down once in a while.
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