This is taken from The Bovine blog:
“Safer than Foods
Dietary food supplements are among the safest substances on the planet. There have been exactly zero fatalities caused by the Canadian health food industry during its entire 50-year history. In 2004, an independent study of the causes of death was conducted (by R. Law), using Canadian Government data, quasi government and NGO websites, documents, databases and research outputs. This study assigned units of risk for 59 documented causes of death, such as the following:
- Adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals 756
- Food 19
- Lightning 0.25
- Bee/wasp/hornet sting 0.06
- Natural healthcare/therapeutic products 0.014
Compared to your risk of dying from taking a food supplement, you are thus
- 54,000 times more likely to die from taking pharmaceutical drugs
- 1,357 times more likely to be killed by food (poisoning/allergy)
- 18 times more likely to be killed by lightning, and
- 4 times more likely to die from an insect bite.”
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