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A 2008 survey by the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a Washington, D.C.-based group representing supplement makers, revealed that 64% of American adults now take dietary supplements. Yet, headlines this past year proclaimed little measurable health benefit from B vitamins, vitamins C and E or multivitamins. What to do?
Giving up supplements may not be the answer, especially considering the low-risk diet insurance a daily multivitamin/mineral provides. The smartest nutrition move may be shifting your diet toward whole foods, which provide combinations of important nutrients the way nature intended. The lesson? Don't subtract supplements, add whole foods.
Are Supplement Benefits a Bust? The latest study to question the benefits of supplements appeared in the February 9 Archives of Internal Medicine. After eight years of following more than 160,000 postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative, researchers could find no evidence that multis had any influence on the incidence of common cancers, cardiovascular disease or death from any cause.
Even oft-lauded antioxidant supplements seem to be losing their luster. The Physician's Health Study II, which followed more than 14,000 male physicians for 10 years, found that supplementing with vitamins C and E did not...
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