I’ve always thought that vitamins and supplements sold by health food shops an others is a lot of mumbo jumbo backed up with little or no accurate science based evidence. And unsurprisingly The Cochrane Collaboration agrees with a report that not only suggests antioxidant pills do nothing to reduce deaths that they in fact increase deaths.

Still, what’s the industries response, rubbish report (here) by wheeling out dodgy celebrities (Sir Cliff Richard, Gloria Hunniford, Jenny Seagrove and Carole Caplin) backing your products. I could write more but it would be pointless instead read Ben Goldacre’s article on his Bad Science website.