2008 was a tough year for vitamin merchants. In November, the Journal of the American Medical Association published the results of a study that followed 14,641 male physicians dividing them into four groups. The New York Times reports that one group took 400 international units of
vitamin E every other day and 500 milligrams of vitamin C
daily; another took vitamin E and a placebo vitamin C; another took
vitamin C and placebo vitamin E; and the last group took only placebos. After eight years, the paper reports, the researchers found no difference among the groups in the incidence of heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure or angina. Read an abstract from the study in JAMA.
Wait, there's more: In December, the Los Angeles Times reported on the failure of two long-term trials with more than 50,000 participants to demonstrate that vitamin C, vitamin E and selenium supplements reduce the risk of prostate, colorectal, lung, bladder or pancreatic
cancer. And later in December, the same paper reported on a Harvard Medical School study that found that women who took beta carotene or vitamin C or E or a combination of
supplements had a similar risk of cancer as women who did not take the
supplements. Read an abstract of that study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH!
How about the VITAMIN Selenium? This compound has been well known through out ALL medical communities to cause cancerous cell to destroy themselves.
Oh … but the SCIENTIFIC STUDY only included vitamins that did NOTHING to help cancer and IGNORED those that do!
Always check the political motivations of studies! Thay have and will be used as tools for groups opposed to the natural supplements industry, such as the AMA!
Know why? They can’t patent natural supplements and therefore can’t charge consumers 100X that they are worth!
Hey … anyone notice the LAST article posted on this blog?
50 of the time of drugs do NOTHING for their patients!
http://www.sportsgeezer.com/sportsgeezer/2008/12/50-percent-of-people-who-take-drugs-see-no-benefit.html
You saw it here first!
The studies are getting broader play in the general media now as well. And FYI, they did study selenium: no changes in cancer rate though a mild uptick in diabetes risk from its use.