Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The True Risks of Supplements Revealed


The True Risks of Supplements Revealed
Pharmaceutical Drugs 62,000 Times More Likely to Kill You than Supplements
By Dr. Mercola
According to the Council for Responsible Nutrition, 69 percent of American adults take supplements. But are supplements dangerous? The UK-based, international campaign group, the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) recently revealed data1 showing that compared to supplements, an individual is:
    Around 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning Nearly 300,000 times more likely to die from a preventable medical injury during a UK hospital stay, which is comparable to the individual risk of dying that active military face in Iraq or Afghanistan
Additionally, the data shows that adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs are:
    62,000 times more likely to kill you than food supplements 7,750 times more likely to kill you than herbal remedies
    To read the rest of the article, click Here.

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