Carol's review
Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry
by Dan Hurley
Carol's review
Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry by Dan Hurley
Carol's review
rating:
recommended for: anyone that takes, or is considering taking supplements
As a pharmacist, I'm on a mini-crusade to convince people that just because something is 'all-natural' does NOT mean that it is good for you. Snake venom is all natural, strychnine is all natural, arsenic is all natural. It's amazing how lobbyists have prevented the regulation of vitamins and supplements. Not only are supplement companies not required to study toxicity, but they don't even have to offer any proof whatsoever that the stuff is effective!! Despite millions of dollars in testing natural supplements there is little to no evidence that 98% of that crap does anything.
This book does a great job of laying it all out. It catches the political, economical, medical and even personal (through interviews with 'victims' of supplement use gone wrong) angles. Definitely recommended.
This book does a great job of laying it all out. It catches the political, economical, medical and even personal (through interviews with 'victims' of supplement use gone wrong) angles. Definitely recommended.
