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Article: Should you believe the headlines about vitamins? Vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta carotene. One day they' re good for you, the next day they're not. We help you make sense of the latest reports. (How To Eat Right).
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- Natural Health
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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UNTIL RECENTLY, THE NEWS about vitamins C and E and beta carotene has been nothing but good: People who consume lots of them are less apt to get colds, cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses. But lately the word on these three vitamins has not been so positive. Vitamin E, says one study, does not heal heart disease. Vitamin C and beta carotene might cause cancer, report two others.
How can you make sense of it all? "The general public needs to look at more than one issue, more than one story, more than one scientific study [to get the full picture]," says Samer Koutoubi, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of nutrition at Bastyr University in Kenmore, Wash. ...