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Article: Vitamins for health. (Flashes).
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- A Friend Indeed
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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A recent review of studies spanning from 1966 to 2002 demonstrates what our health practitioners have been telling us all along: a multivitamin daily is good for your health. Researchers from the Harvard Medical School of Public Health found that while overall vitamin deficiency in the well-fed Western world is rare, it is still common for many of us to be deficient in one or several important vitamins, particularly vitamins D, E, B6, B 12 and folic acid. The researchers also found that a deficiency in one or more vitamins is associated with a variety of chronic diseases, including coronary heart disease, cancer and osteoporosis. For once, the remedy is easy: the ...