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Antioxidants and cancer were supposed to be bitter enemies. We were told antioxidant benefits also included a reduction in heart disease, memory loss, type 2 diabetes, cataracts and macular degeneration. Antioxidant vitamins (C, E, and beta-carotene) were supposed to help prevent all of them.
So far, the three antioxidants (plus zinc) have succeeded with only one: slowing the pace of macular degeneration in older people who already have the eye disease.
“The randomized trials for antioxidants have been very disappointing,” says Harvard’s JoAnn Manson, who led the Women’s Antioxidant Cardiovascular Study, the Women’s Folic Acid Study, and other major trials.
“Medical journal: ‘Case closed’ against vitamin pills,” ran the headline in USA Today in 2013. But is it really? Two studies led to the headline. In the first, doctors who…
When an Op Ed in The New York Times in June 2013 warned readers, “Don’t Take Your Vitamins,” it wasn’t referring to multivitamins like Centrum or One A Day. Instead,…
Fruits & vegetables. “Several studies have reported that women who consume more fruits and vegetables, especially ones that are rich in carotenoids like beta-carotene, have a reduced risk of postmenopausal…