Monday, November 17, 2008

Vitamin C, E Supplements Won't Help Prevent Cancer - washingtonpost.com

More bad news for vitamin makers and takers.

Vitamin C, E Supplements Won't Help Prevent Cancer - washingtonpost.com:
"Coming on the heels of two studies discounting the usefulness of vitamin B, folic acid, vitamin D and calcium supplements for cancer prevention, U.S. researchers report that vitamins C and E supplements won't help prevent cancer, either.

The same team also recently reported that vitamin C and E supplements weren't helpful in protecting users against heart disease.

'At least in the context of two very common outcomes -- cardioprotection and chemoprevention -- we see no compelling evidence to take vitamin E or C supplements,' said one of the study's authors, Dr. Howard Sesso...."

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