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Article: Trio of vitamins are recruited in the fight against heart disease. (vitamins A, C, E) (Report on the Top Killers: Part 1)
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- September 1, 1992
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(First in a series on the good news about nutrition-related developments in the struggle to manage three of the leading causes of death in the United States. Next: cancer and diabetes.)
More Americans--nearly one in two--die from heart disease than from any other single cause. It is the leading killer of both men and women, claiming nearly a million lives a year.
Despite these bleak statistics, the death rate from cardiovascular disease is declining, thanks in part to changes in eating and fitness habits.
Free Radicals at Work. There is also mounting evidence that dietary antioxidants may help prevent heart disease. Vitamins C, E and ...