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Vitamin research: continues to find no benefit and some risks.

Article Excerpt
Looking for ways to save money? Stop taking vitamins. The scientific case against them has been building over the last few years, starting with the report from the 2006 U.S. National Institutes of Health State-of-the Science Conference on Multivitamins/Mineral Supplements. The next year, a Cochrane review of all antioxidant trials caused an uproar because it found no preventive benefit to taking these supplements and a slight increase in mortality. And just in the last month alone, one new trial found no cancer preventive benefit to taking B vitamins; and another trial found no cardiovascular preventive effects for vitamins C and E. Both were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

B Vitamins

The B vitamins trial was led by Shumin M. Zhang, MD, and colleagues at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School. The impetus for this trial, explained...