Article: Almonds are Key to Boosting Vitamin E Intake; New Study Reaffirms That Vitamin E From Dietary Supplements Does Not Prevent Heart Disease; Food First Is the Way to Get the E You Need.

MODESTO, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- If you have been taking vitamin E dietary supplements to prevent heart disease and you are otherwise healthy, you may be wasting your time. The synthetic vitamin E in dietary supplements is not absorbed as efficiently as the vitamin E naturally found in food. To get the vitamin E you actually need each day, eating a handful of almonds, an excellent source of vitamin E, is an easy first step.

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For more than a decade, researchers have been investigating the benefit of high dose dietary supplements of vitamin E. However, the results have not been promising -- ...

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