Some researchers just reported that taking too many vitamins is bad for health after following 38,000 US women for two decades. One of the doctors even commented, “We think the paradigm ‘The more the better’ is wrong.” And that makes for front page BBC news?
If you drink too much water too fast, you will die from it, and somebody out there thought that you could just load the body up with vitamins and it will be fine? They really needed to spend thousands of dollars to show something that is intuitive to my high school students? I find it so annoying that research like this gets even a cent of our funding (yes, this was in Finland but the corollary applies in the US) because with the economy in the gutter and money being squeezed out of NIH left and right, it is hard for good research to get money and here these people are wasting money on showing that too much of one thing can be bad for the body. You, my sir, deserve an Ig Nobel Prize.
And BBC, please don’t try to emulate American news by publishing articles just to get a reaction from the populace. I beg of you to uphold your investigative journalism standards that have been exemplary for decades.
