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Multivitamins Prevent Disease?
Topic Started: Oct 17 2012, 01:57 PM (89 Views)
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It's a decision that millions of Americans face every morning: to take, or not to take, that multivitamin. Now, a new study of almost 15,000 men over 50 suggests popping that daily supplement could cut cancer rates by 8 percent.

The study is good news for some Americans, who spend billions of dollars each year on the assumption that taking a daily multivitamin will help prevent disease.

"Despite the lack of definitive trial data regarding the benefits of multivitamins in the prevention of chronic disease, including cancer, many men and women take them for precisely this reason," said Dr. Michael Gaziano, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Our study shows a modest but significant benefit in cancer prevention."

It's unclear whether the results apply to women or men under 50.


***** Only 8% sounds a bit like the margin of error. I'll pop on now and then. Not a regular thing.
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Tybee
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I've always worked under the premise that if I eat the right foods that are full of natural vitamins I don't really need a multivitamin. Plus, I've always heard that when you pop a vitamin the vast majority of it comes out when you pee.
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A bit gross, but when you're at the nude beach, and someone pees in the ocean, and it's that day-glow yellow, you can always assume there was a multi-vitamin at breakfast.

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Nude pee is different than non-nude pee?
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Maybe a swimsuit filters the urine so it's not noticeable. That's all I can come up with. :lol
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Erna
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Should we discontinue vitamin pills before we have our SMAS lift next month?
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Multivitamins might work, but they also contain too much selenium, which can be a deadly poison.
So I take one every third day.
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