This science-news article-title caught my eye:
Multivitamins Can Add Sparkle for Healthy Young People
No, the vitamins do not have glitter in them, with the instructions to grind up the pills and sprinkle them on yourself after showering.
How I wonder, was the variable “sparkle” measured? And do I personally have enough of this attribute? Am a sparkle-deficient?
Here’s some of the dope:
In a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study, 215 men in full-time employment aged between 30 and 55 were given either a proprietary multivitamin or a placebo for a period of 33 days. [bolds mine]
Um. Those healthy young people were males between the ages of 30 and 55. Man! You really got to read the not-so-fine print.
The two groups were tested at the beginning of the study and at the end with a battery of mood, stress and health questionnaires and with physical and mental tasks that included mental arithmetic (counting backwards in 3s or 7s from a random number).
And what happened?
. . . after 33 days supplementation the multivitamin/minerals group reported significantly improved ratings of general mental health, reduced subjective stress and increased ratings of ‘vigour’, with a strong trend towards an overall improvement in mood . . . . The placebo group showed no significant changes.
Wow. That’s something, isn’t it? All from a multi-vitamin? Well, yes and no. It wasn’t just any old vitamin.
The multivitamin was a B complex, vitamin C and minerals product known as Berocca® which is manufactured by Bayer Consumer Care, the sponsors of the study.
While the results of this study may be legit, I’m a bit skeptical. Which isn’t the same as sparkly. Is there a multivitamin to increase skepticism?
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