Few Good Studies on Certain Heart-Friendly Foods
To present a current, accurate view on the articles I publish, I try to find as many scientific studies as I can. Some vitamins and nutrients have very little published on them. And sometimes I wonder if the reports I find are used to discourage any positive reporting on a vitamin or nutrient.
For example – vitamin C is touted by many to be a great antioxidant. If one looks for scientific studies to support those hypotheses – well, you might come up lacking. Linus Pauling – some say he was the greatest scientist of the 20th century – swore by vitamin C. He was awarded more than one Nobel prize for his research. And I don’t think he had any monetary interest in promoting vitamin C. He stated that he regularly took 17 grams daily.
Now the pharmaceuticals don’t have anything to gain by promoting vitamin C or niacin, two very heart protective vitamins. Do they actively discourage research into the benefits of taking these vitamins? Your guess is as good as mine.
I have found other heart-protective nutrients that suffer the same fate. I have read that a pharmaceutical company spent a good bit of money on research to create a drug that would replace niacin, but was not successful. It goes to show that some old-timey cures do work and even here in the 21st century you can’t do much better.
