Multivitamin and Multimineral Supplements

[deepdiver]

New Product Review: Multivitamin and Multimineral Supplements (Including Vitamin Waters)

Recent tests by ConsumerLab.com found defects in 30% of the multis selected for testing.  And many products exeeded tolerable upper intake limits for certain vitamins or minerals.  Specific problems included:

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      75% of children's multis were too high in vitamin A.
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      One men's multi was contaminated with lead; another had too much folic acid -- associated with a doubling of the risk of prostate cancer.
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      A seniors', a prenatal, and a women's multivitamin each had only 44.1%, 44.3%, and 66.1%, respectively, of their vitamin A.
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      A vitamin water had 15 times the stated amount of folic acid.
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      A pet multi was contaminated with lead; another had only 46% of its vitamin A and 54.7% of its calcium.
I WILL FOLLOW UP WITH RESULTS!!!!!!!!

[deepdiver]

the info. is from consumerlab.com
read my new post on folate and colon cancer research!

[Paxiled]

Deep, where did the info on the link between folate and prostate cancer come from?  I take a lot of folate, because of the anxiety.  It's also part of homocysteine reducing formulas, high homocysteine levels being one of the foremost predictors of heart attacks.  It would be a bad nutrient to have to avoid.