As I have warned repeatedly, now that more people are turning away from the failed system of managed illness you will likely be seeing more and more negative reports and study announcements regarding supplements and natural health.
Many will merely have misleading headlines, like the recent "Complementary And Alternative Medicines May Hinder Diabetes Management" which could just have easily been titled "Mainstream Diabetes Management May Hinder Natural Solutions" (See my response here: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/youropinions.php?opinionid=19013)
Now, let's take a look at the BS message above that our benevolent mainstream propagandists are sending out. The original message I saw was bad enough, but now I see that it has been tailored to be even more misleading:
"By taking selenium supplements on top of an adequate dietary intake, people may increase their risk for diabetes." Let's take a look at what has been left out of the original story on this study, which was a CANCER study:
However the authors said that despite these findings, there is evidence that selenium supplementation may help to prevent cancer. Larger randomized clinical trials are currently looking into this further.
The study also had limitations the researchers conceded. First, the main trial was not designed to look at diabetes but cancer. Secondly, the diabetes incidence was self-reported and there is a possibility that some patients may have been underdiagnosed for diabetes. Thirdly, although some other factors were taken into account such as age and BMI, there was no in depth analysis of family history, body fat distribution and physical activity, although these effects should have been minimized by the randomization.
And fourthly, the participant sample was not representative of the population at large, consisting of elderly people (mean age was 63.2 years) from low-selenium parts of the eastern US with a history of non-melanoma skin cancer. Thus these findings cannot really be generalized to other groups.
Writing in an accompanying editorial, Dr Eliseo Guallar, of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health said that . . . .The results of this study don't prove that selenium causes diabetes but they are worrying.
One can only imagine what mainstream medicine and the media would have to say about a supplement study that showed positive results yet had so many loopholes and caveats!
"The original cancer trial found that those who took selenium had a somewhat lower risk of dying from cancer, although the supplements did not lower the risk of getting skin cancer in the first place." Am I reading this wrong, or is this a negative way of admitting that there is a benefit?
"Another surprising study found that smokers who took beta-carotene supplements raise their risk of cancer."
Oh - they mean the study where they used SYNTHETIC beta-carotene. No wonder it raised the risks of cancer, it was just like one of their drugs - a synthetic!
"E-mail to a friend" Or better yet, post on forums - we need all the help we can get putting down the safer, more effective and less expensive competition!
Stay tuned boys and girls - we have a trillion dollar industry whose only market place is our bodies and they are not going to play fair. They never have.