Childrens chewable multivitamins - safe?

[Fancy]

You don't read much do you?

Someone write an incredible article about Ritalin and ADHD in BC about twenty years ago.
Vancouver Sun and Penticton Herald printed it.
Not often does someone do that kind of research and get it into the newspapers.

Read more books than I can count so yes - sometimes read a book a day.

Do you know how to link to your source or do you just make up stuff?

[Dizzy1]

You don't read much do you?

Someone write an incredible article about Ritalin and ADHD in BC about twenty years ago.
Vancouver Sun and Penticton Herald printed it.
Not often does someone do that kind of research and get it into the newspapers.

Find a link for us.

[Thinktank]

Find a link for us.

You mean go to Vancouver
go to Vancouver Sun

and look through all their old newspapers?

It would be easier if you would just learn to read stuff whenever it's printed.

[Fancy]

You mean go to Vancouver
go to Vancouver Sun

and look through all their old newspapers?

It would be easier if you would just learn to read stuff whenever it's printed.

Do you read every single paper from Vancouver to Halifax? If you state something from a source you've read it's a given you should be able to back it up with a link. Why would I read the Vancouver Sun?

[Thinktank]

go to google

search aluminum alzheimers

then tell me why children's vitamins have aluminum

[Fancy]

Just asked you for a link.

[Fancy]

Oh and need to know some chemistry because aluminum comes in all sorts of compounds.

[Dizzy1]

You mean go to Vancouver
go to Vancouver Sun

and look through all their old newspapers?

You answered it yourself ...

go to google

It would be easier if you would just learn to read stuff whenever it's printed.

I do read printed material, but when I make a claim in a discussion forum I like to back that claim up with a digital link for others to read ... it makes it easier to differentiate what actually was written and what is one's interpretation of what was written.

BTW, thought you were going "paperless"?

[Farmmaa]

West Van and Whistler have almost no kids with ADHD.
Quesnel and Williams Lkae have way higher numbers of ADHD kids than average.
Kelowna and Penticton have average numbers of ADHD kids - about one in ten.

Now - do you still want to buy the cheapest kids vitamins loaded with aluminum and tons of other chemicals for $2.00 at a Looney store? Do you think that's a smart investment?

And somehow you can link family income with chewable vitamin use ?
You don't suppose any other factors came into play at all ? Diet, nutrition, health and activities, environment? Perhaps even access to proper medical testing and diagnosis ?

I gave my kids chewable vitamins for years...all of them grew up healthy and normal.

[Poindexter]

Considering that studies show multi-vitamins provide no health benefits why would anyone even bother taking the risk of giving them to thier kids.

October 1st, 2010

Multivitamins offer few if any benefits for most kids

Just how many nails will the coffin of multivitamins need before we abandon the idea that multivitamin supplements will convey all sorts of health benefits: they simply don’t, and often not even in people who you would think would benefit most from them.

Like young, inner city, American kids, for example.

You would think that if anyone would show a health benefit from the regular use of multivitamins, it would be kids like these, whose overall diets are usually pretty poor and who generally have little access to fruits and veggies and other vitamin-rich foods.

So in a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers took 700 inner city primary school kids and gave half of them chewable multivitamins to take every day for a full academic year, while the rest got a placebo.

At the end of the year, there was no difference in the two groups in test scores or in behaviors, such as late arrivals and absenteeism (presumably, the latter would not only be a marker for behavior change but would also be a good surrogate marker for number of days lost from school because of illness).

Now, as always, a study like this can be – and will be – criticized over the dose of the multivitamin that was used and the length of time the study lasted, the argument being that these kids not only need a higher of vitamins, but also a pill that contains other nutrients they may be lacking and also that it would likely take a long time for the effects of supplementation to kick in, all of which may be true, but seems doubtful, given the huge number of other studies that have also failed to find much benefit from the use of multivitamin supplementation.

Bottom line: multivitamin supplements are absolutely no substitute for eating well, and generally offer very little, probably no, benefit to most people who take them.

I’m Dr Art Hister

[Fancy]

Should you take extra vitamin D and calcium?
Here’s the problem if, as most people do, when you run across a medical news story that might affect you, you read only headlines or at most a paragraph or three: you often get a totally wrong impression of what that study or report was really about.

http://drarthister.blogspot.ca/2012/06/ ... d-and.html