Saturday, March 24, 2007

Day +262 : Nutritional supplements, the more the better? (2)

I am fine today. Continue from yesterday…

My common sense told me at that time that this kind of argument is seriously flawed though I did not normally confront them directly. No matter how good and natural a product is, we still have to exercise control in taking them. Of course, our body is clever enough to maintain an optimum level of vitamin or mineral by disposing any surplus through organs such as kidney and liver. But we have to consider the unnecessary burden that the organs have to bear in doing this; which might eventually lead to organ failure. In the end, we pay money to make our organs to do extra work unnecessarily, worth it?

I share with you the following Chinese newspaper cutting on the possible long-term side-effects of taking nutritional supplements. The chairman of Malaysian Oncological Society (MOS), Dr Gurcharan Singh Khera, warned the potential risks of taking natural supplements indiscriminately. These includes possible organs damage and shorter life span.

Click the newspaper cutting to get a larger view.

The more you take, the better they are, not you are :-) Who are ‘they are’? You guess.

See you next post :-)

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