More supplements…
The Daily Hate is running a story on a future trial on food supplement pills for the prevention of cancer. I have no problem with this research in principle, assuming it is well-designed (blinded, placebo-controlled, randomised) and meaningful but the thing I don’t understand is why we need to make everything into a simple “cure-all” type pill?
From the article:
The four compounds are tricin, found in Thai sticky rice, resveratrol, from red wine, curcumin, found in turmeric, and anthocyanins, groups of antioxidants derived from bilberries.
Why can we not just get these from our diets? If you give people pills saying they’ll prevent cancer a lot of them will consider that to be the end of it and not bother adjusting the rest of their otherwise unhealthy lifestyle.
