Article: ARS: Animal study sheds light on link between cancer and high doses of beta carotene supplements.

Article: Beta-carotene supplements: where there's ...
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  October 1, 2003 ;     682 words ... ... pointed out that synthetic beta-carotene was used in all of the studies ... not necessarily follow that beta-carotene supplements from natural sources (which ... composition from synthetic beta-carotene) would be any safer than the ...

Article: Vitamin E, beta-carotene supplements fail ...
Environmental Nutrition;  July 1, 2003 ;     683 words ...Vitamin E and beta-carotene supplements failed to protect against heart ... Moreover, the results suggest beta-carotene might even be harmful in some ... daily) and eight studies of beta-carotene (60 to 200 milligrams daily ...

Article: Beta carotene supplements may carry cancer ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 19, 1996 ;     697 words ...Beta carotene supplements do not protect Americans against ... those being given high doses of beta carotene were dying. There were 28% more ... cancers and 17% more deaths among beta carotene takers than smokers who took dummy ...

Article: Beta-carotene supplements were found to be ...
Environmental Nutrition;  March 1, 2000 ;     528 words ...* Beta-carotene supplements were found to be neither beneficial ... took either 50 milligrams of beta-carotene or a placebo on alternate days ... Unlike two previous studies, the beta-carotene supplements were not linked to increased ...

Article: News on Cancer Link to Excess Beta Carotene ...
Agricultural Research;  May 1, 1999 ;     681 words ...Why did high doses of beta carotene supplements apparently increase lung cancer rates ... These animals absorb and metabolize beta carotene much as humans do. In the study, excess beta carotene stored in the ferrets' lungs became ...

Article: Beta carotene supplements and risk of ...
Nursing Standard;  May 21, 2003 ;     594 words ...Beta carotene supplementation might reduce the risk ... age-related cataract in a trial of beta carotene supplementation, the researchers ... male physicians to receive either beta carotene 50mg on alternate days or placebo ...

Article: High-dose beta-carotene supplements risky ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 12, 2003 ;     601 words ... ... risk of bone fractures but that beta-carotene was not associated with this same ... presumably because the body converts beta-carotene to vitamin A only as needed. Couldn't you just take beta-carotene instead of vitamin A? A: Yes ...