Comments on: Popping a multivitamin can lead to debauchery http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/ The official Derren Brown Blog Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:25:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Wayne http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97543 Wayne Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:40:10 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97543 Interesting study how ever i wouldn't say a multi vitamin is necessarily a bad thing. Poor nutrition is the 2nd biggest contributor to cancer, first being smoking. Although its certainly no replacement for exercise it helps the immune system especially for older people with weakened systems. The food we eat now a days just doesn't contain the nutrients we need due to companies putting more preservatives for shelf life. The air we breathe is more polluted than fresh and the water contains fluoride. Interesting study how ever i wouldn’t say a multi vitamin is necessarily a bad thing. Poor nutrition is the 2nd biggest contributor to cancer, first being smoking. Although its certainly no replacement for exercise it helps the immune system especially for older people with weakened systems. The food we eat now a days just doesn’t contain the nutrients we need due to companies putting more preservatives for shelf life. The air we breathe is more polluted than fresh and the water contains fluoride.

]]> By: alan http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97498 alan Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:11:09 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97498 Thanks a lot. So all I really need is any blue pill that has a V for vitamins stamped on it? Thanks a lot. So all I really need is any blue pill that has a V for vitamins stamped on it?

]]> By: Sabina http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97211 Sabina Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:58:15 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97211 Hahahaha that's clearly where Ive been going wrong. *throws vitamins away* This is my new excuse for smoking, drinking and getting myself into dangerous situations. It's all your fault vitamins! Hahahaha that’s clearly where Ive been going wrong. *throws vitamins away* This is my new excuse for smoking, drinking and getting myself into dangerous situations. It’s all your fault vitamins!

]]> By: Nick http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97208 Nick Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:43:58 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97208 This is brilliant. Debauchery is a word I haven't heard for a long time. How would one find a more humble out look, rather than debauched, arrogant, self centred, escapist behaviour? What sort of front is such behaviour and what does it hide? How easy is it to appeal to someone's arrogance? As soon as people get any sort of "edge" these days we blow it for ourselves and others. Why are we all so ugly :P? Maybe it is just me ... Self love, ego, avoiding potential responsiveness at the expense of others because it feels good ..? What about it feels good ..? How quick are we to forget our own values and why? Values such as striving for the sake of everyone including ourselves. What do we get to keep by revelling in self-centred lives? Sorry about that, it was just an article on vitamins :P This is brilliant. Debauchery is a word I haven’t heard for a long time. How would one find a more humble out look, rather than debauched, arrogant, self centred, escapist behaviour? What sort of front is such behaviour and what does it hide? How easy is it to appeal to someone’s arrogance? As soon as people get any sort of “edge” these days we blow it for ourselves and others. Why are we all so ugly :P ? Maybe it is just me … Self love, ego, avoiding potential responsiveness at the expense of others because it feels good ..? What about it feels good ..?

How quick are we to forget our own values and why? Values such as striving for the sake of everyone including ourselves. What do we get to keep by revelling in self-centred lives?

Sorry about that, it was just an article on vitamins :P

]]> By: roz http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97206 roz Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:35:22 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97206 AWRIGHT!! now where did i put the vitamin bottle... AWRIGHT!! now where did i put the vitamin bottle…

]]> By: Chrissi http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97197 Chrissi Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:46:26 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97197 Sorry to be a pedant, but *really* - "HEALTHFUL"? Sheesh. Sorry to be a pedant, but *really* – “HEALTHFUL”? Sheesh.

]]> By: Thomas http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97195 Thomas Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:43:48 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97195 MSNBC give no reference to a source. We're supposed to just *believe* this because it's been on the news? It sounds feasible, but feasible does not equal true. The linked article could be a product of the same pharmaceutical schmoozing that has brought the EU in their infinite unelected wisdom to ban supplements all together, albeit in the Land of the Fry. I'm no proponent of hocus-pocus quackery, but some of that health-foods gubbins is pretty good for you if you don't rely on it to cure cancer. MSNBC give no reference to a source. We’re supposed to just *believe* this because it’s been on the news?
It sounds feasible, but feasible does not equal true. The linked article could be a product of the same pharmaceutical schmoozing that has brought the EU in their infinite unelected wisdom to ban supplements all together, albeit in the Land of the Fry.
I’m no proponent of hocus-pocus quackery, but some of that health-foods gubbins is pretty good for you if you don’t rely on it to cure cancer.

]]> By: John V. Keogh http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97194 John V. Keogh Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:33:49 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97194 I think 'healthful' is a dreadful neologism. I had better go and take my tablets. I think ‘healthful’ is a dreadful neologism. I had better go and take my tablets.

]]> By: Berber Anna http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97193 Berber Anna Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:21:19 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97193 Hm. I'm afraid I don't value vitamins highly enough, then, as I don't feel invulnerable at all. I take a multivitamin because a) I got the jar for free in a goodie bag, b) I need to take vitamin D on doctor's orders anyway and that's part of the multi, and c) I'm hoping it'll offer some protection against UTIs and colds (although evidence on this is shaky). I don't exercise because I can't convince myself that walking or running makes sense when I'm not going anywhere (though I do take walks when I'm out doing some nature photography), but I don't have casual sex, sunbathe or drink either. And I don't like all you can eat buffets, because I can never finish more than a plate and a half which makes it a waste of money. Interesting study, though. Hm. I’m afraid I don’t value vitamins highly enough, then, as I don’t feel invulnerable at all. I take a multivitamin because a) I got the jar for free in a goodie bag, b) I need to take vitamin D on doctor’s orders anyway and that’s part of the multi, and c) I’m hoping it’ll offer some protection against UTIs and colds (although evidence on this is shaky).

I don’t exercise because I can’t convince myself that walking or running makes sense when I’m not going anywhere (though I do take walks when I’m out doing some nature photography), but I don’t have casual sex, sunbathe or drink either. And I don’t like all you can eat buffets, because I can never finish more than a plate and a half which makes it a waste of money.

Interesting study, though.

]]> By: Marticca http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/11/popping-multivitamin-lead-debauchery/#comment-97192 Marticca Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:12:09 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=17416#comment-97192 This actually makes a lot of sense, it's pretty much in the same prospective as a study I did in psychology, where alcoholics who receive new livers after years of binge drinking and dangerous alcoholism will near enough always go back to their old ways with the reassurance of a brand new shiny liver. This is why I feel the transplant list should be much more stricter with their priorities. But when it comes to vitamins, I knew a young pregnant girl who smoked and drank with the defense that the vitamins should help the baby enough and therefore the smoking and drink shouldn't do as much harm. It's a false sense of health and security. This actually makes a lot of sense, it’s pretty much in the same prospective as a study I did in psychology, where alcoholics who receive new livers after years of binge drinking and dangerous alcoholism will near enough always go back to their old ways with the reassurance of a brand new shiny liver.

This is why I feel the transplant list should be much more stricter with their priorities.

But when it comes to vitamins, I knew a young pregnant girl who smoked and drank with the defense that the vitamins should help the baby enough and therefore the smoking and drink shouldn’t do as much harm.

It’s a false sense of health and security.

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