> To calm my adoring wife's concerns, and maintain marital bliss, I take a daily and utterly superfluous "Mature Multivitamin"

>> You could mention this:
>> most of the supplements studied were not associated with a reduced total mortality rate in older women....

I am not so suicidal as to use the term "older" to describe any female beekeeper in possession of a sharpened hive tool.

And as for the claimed correlation between iron supplements and mortality, I recently mentioned this sort of "data dredging" where correlations can be found between many things in past data, but lack the predictive power to hold up when compared to data collected AFTER the correlation is found

 See " https://community.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-LSOFTDONATIONS.exe?A2=BEE-L;1066a47.2402&S= "

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