Vitamin Supplements Don't Help You Live Longer, Study

Can't emphasize it enough. They have NO idea what a "healthy" food or supplement is.

"After reviewing nearly 70 randomized studies on the effects of vitamin or antioxidant supplements, scientists in Denmark concluded there is no evidence that they prolong life, and even found evidence that some of them, such as beta-carotene, Vitamin A and Vitamin E, may actually shorten it.

The review is the work of Dr Christian Gluud, director of medical science, associate professor and department head of the Copenhagen Trial Unit at the Centre for Clinical Intervention Research and Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, and colleagues. It is published in the latest issue of the The Cochrane Library.

The reviewers warned that healthy people who take antioxidant supplements such as Vitamin A and E to ward off diseases like cancer could be disrupting their body's natural defences and increasing their risk of early death by as much as 16 per cent."

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