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Article: Carrots and coronaries.(study says vitamin-A and beta-carotene supplements do not prevent cancer and may even be harmful)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1996
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Sceptics given to the view that "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" will take smug satisfaction in recent news from America's National Institutes of Health. On January 18th the NIH announced the results of two studies of the effects of taking capsules of vitamin A and beta-carotene (which the body converts to vitamin A), both widely believed to protect people against lung cancer. For pill poppers, the news was bad.
In neither study - one of 22,071 American male doctors started 12 years ago, the other of 18,431 high-risk men and women which has been in full swing for about seven years - did the pills live up to their reputation. In the mixed-sex trial, ...
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