Wanna be healthy? Eat more chocolate

One of my favorite Woody Allen movies is Sleeper. It’s a classic sci-fi movie where a health store owner dies and his family freezes his body in suspended animation. Fifty years later, when they find a cure for his condition, they defrost him, and bring him back to life. Amazingly, this 1973 movie has something tasty to say about your health. How is that possible?

The first thing that the store owner discovers after waking up is that while he was asleep, medical researchers had made an important discovery. Instead of chocolate cake being bad for you, as health nut Woody had always thought, they found out that it is the healthiest food you can eat. 

Prevent prostate cancer with this powerful vitamin-mineral combination

Last Friday, you saw how the mainstream press and conventional medicine have teamed up to undermine supplements. In that poorly done study, researchers said vitamins and minerals cause early death. But they didn’t limit their aggressive attacks to this one study. At the same time, they reported on another flawed study. This one suggested that vitamin E use might increase the risk of prostate cancer.

You can see the flaw in this study right in the publicly available abstract. The researchers conducting this study used synthetic vitamin E. They used alpha tocopheryl acetate instead of naturally occurring mixed tocopherols. That means the makers of the vitamin E did not balance it properly. Synthetics typically omit the more beneficial and protective gamma tocopherol.

Will supplements really cause you to die early?

Once again a scientific report is attacking your supplements. This time, a study says they might shorten your life! The study, released a couple weeks ago, continues to make news. But few are looking at the real truth of the report. Here’s what you need to know.

The report did an analysis of vitamin supplement intake on 38,772 older women over 22 years old. They found, of 15 supplements studied, that folic acid, vitamin B6, magnesium, zinc, copper, and multivitamins increased your risk of early death. But iron was the one nutrient that led the pack. Let’s look at how the study was done. Then I’ll give you my two cents.

The first real problem was how the researchers “measured” supplement intake. They based their measurements on just a few questionnaires sent to the 38,772 women.