Getting Sick on Thanksgiving Week

Holidays are one of the worst times to get sick, not that there's a good time for it.

If feels like I probably will be under the weather for Thanksgiving Week. I'm having sore throat and some sniffles. Will taking Vitamin C help? Probably not according to this Newsweek article.

 

Take Multivitamins... At Your Own Risk(?)

A study by the National Cancer Institute suggests that men who take too many multivitamins may be increasing their risk of dying from prostate cancer.

From the Freakonomics Blog, I found additional and separate studies about the harmful effects of taking vitamins: from high calcium/vitamin D intake and multivitamin brands to, well, vitamins themselves. Doesn't this sound like another of those damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't scenarios? I hope it is not.

In a related matter, chromium in drinking water also causes cancer, according to the US National Institutes of Health.

Most of these reports I read on those little screens in the bus as I went to and from school today.