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Article: Eat well and take a vitamin. (Neighborhood Heart Watch).(daily multivitamin may help prevent cancer and coronary heart disease )(Brief Article)
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- Medical Update
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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Harvard researchers are urging all Americans to take a daily multivitamin to help prevent coronary heart disease and cancer The new recommendation--based on a review of studies published between 1966 and 2002--appears in the June 19th issue of JAMA.
Drs. Kathleen Fairfield and Robert Fletcher say that most Americans do not get enough of certain vitamins in their diets. In addition, the elderly and those who avoid all animal products are at higher risk of vitamin deficiency. The investigators add that generic multivitamins offer substantial health benefits at a relatively low cost and with low risk of problems.
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