Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Vitamin E Fails to Deliver on Early Promise - New York Times

FWIW I have essentially stopped taking it. Vitamin E Fails to Deliver on Early Promise - New York Times: "'Based on what we've seen, we don't recommend vitamin E supplements for the prevention of heart disease or cancer,' said I-Min Lee, a Harvard Medical School epidemiologist and lead investigator of one of the most recent and weightiest studies to sully the supplement's reputation.

As part of Harvard's double-blind, placebo-controlled Women's Health Study, nearly 20,000 healthy, middle-aged women were given 600 international units of vitamin E every other day for roughly 10 years. Results reported in the July 6 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association found no overall protective benefit against those illnesses."

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