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Article: Vitamin E rises above its former fad status.(Originated from The Providence Journal-Bulletin)
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- August 1, 1997
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Widely touted by the natural food faddists of the 1960s and 1970s, vitamin E was nonetheless the shady lady of vitamins, often ignored by mainstream nutritionists.
``It wasn't considered a serious vitamin,'' says Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg, chief of the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at Tufts University.
This may have been because of its earliest marketing; when the vitamin was first discovered in 1927, it was enthusiastically hawked as a sexual potency miracle.
But now, vitamin E has been vindicated. The latest mainstream research shows it boosts the immune system, offering the potential to fight off the most worrisome of aging diseases, ...