As for vitamin C, some research suggests it may aid cancer, not fight it. A previous study in women at high risk of heart problems found it did not prevent heart attacks.
It involved 14,641 male doctors, 50 or older, including 5 percent who had heart disease at the time the study started in 1997. They were put into four groups and given either vitamin E, vitamin C, both, or dummy pills. The dose of E was 400 international units every other day; C was 500 milligrams daily.
After an average of eight years, no difference was seen in the rates of heart attack, stroke or heart-related deaths among the groups.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health and several vitamin makers.
Bonnie - I am absolutely dumbfounded by the structure of these studies. As in the other vitamin E study, the vitamins used were synthetic, which most experts believe are useless. In the case of vitamin E, the researchers only used alpha tocopherol, not mixed. Most experts know mixed tocopherols are crucial for effectiveness.
The "vitamin makers" were Wyeth, a drug company, and BASF, a chemical company, who dispenses raw materials for supplements, many of them synthetic.
I'm sure this will grab headlines, but we will keep looking at the fine print for our clients.
P.S. One AMA doctor was quoted on this topic calling on everyone to go to the "Quackwatch" website to read about supplements. Besides the fact that the website was cited by the Federal Trade Commission for slander and false claims, the AMA doctor is going against his organization's suggestion, which promotes the daily use of a multivitamin/mineral.
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