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Article: Vitamin and mineral supplements increase intelligence.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1989
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Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Increase Intelligence
A letter to the British medical journal, The Lancet, contained seven letters signed by sixteen authors, all critical of a single report which had been published earlier. What had excited this controversy? Was it a report wherein it was claimed a dangerous new drug had been found to cure arthritis? Was it a report claiming lowering cholesterol levels would decrease the incidence of coronary disease? It was none of these. What aroused the anger of eleven nutritional scientists, two statisticians and three others was a conclusion by David Benton and Gwilym Roberts (1988) that vitamin and mineral supplements ...