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Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

News Keeps Getting Worse for Vitamins

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/200...ps-getting-worse-for-vitamins/?em

Excerpt:

The best efforts of the scientific community to prove the health benefits of vitamins keep falling short.

This week, researchers reported the disappointing results from a large clinical trial of almost 15,000 male doctors taking vitamins E and C for a decade. The study showed no meaningful effect on cancer rates.

Another recent study found no benefit of vitamins E and C for heart disease.

In October, a major trial studying whether vitamin E and selenium could lower a man’s risk for prostate cancer ended amidst worries that the treatments may do more harm than good.
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A Johns Hopkins School of Medicine review of 19 vitamin E clinical trials of more than 135,000 people showed high doses of vitamin E (greater than 400 IUs) increased a person’s risk for dying during the study period by 4 percent. Taking vitamin E with other vitamins and minerals resulted in a 6 percent higher risk of dying. Another study of daily vitamin E showed vitamin E takers had a 13 percent higher risk for heart failure.

Mark · Site Admin Joined: 13 Nov 2007 Posts: 1052

Too funny. I sometimes buy vitamins with the intention of taking them regularly, but usually only remember to do so for a few days after I buy them and then I forget them until I'm cleaning out the fridge or a cabinet a year or two later and come across mostly unused bottles of vitamins.

I don't know if my forgetfulness has increased my life expectancy, but at least now I can stop feeling guilty about it. Wink