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Article: Vitamins and Supplements: Do They Work? The picture is mixed, but thumbs up for vitamin D and fish oil.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- December 9, 2008
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Byline: Katherine Hobson
Late in October, just before his 65th birthday, Robert Marks got a phone call: Stop the pills. For more than a decade, the retired Lutheran minister from Grapeville, Pa., had been among more than 35,000 men enrolled in SELECT, a clinical trial designed to see whether taking selenium and vitamin E might help prevent prostate cancer. But as a letter following up the call explained, not only was the answer "no," but vitamin E apparently increased the chance of prostate cancer, if very slightly, and selenium seemed to raise the risk of diabetes.
The news was another blow in the general battering of vitamin and mineral supplements as ...