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Article: VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- August 20, 2002
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Medical journal urges adults to take preventative measures
Last week, Lynn Rogers of Waynesville went to buy her first bottle
of vitamin supplements at Health Foods Unlimited in Miamisburg.
Rogers was diagnosed with cancer in June, and she now plans to make a
lot of changes in her eating habits, including taking a multivitamin
suggested by her physician.
But doctors are not just recommending vitamins for patients like
Rogers, who have been diagnosed with an illness. New guidelines
published this summer by the Journal of the American Medical
Association - which for the past 20 years has said vitamin
supplements were unnecessary for healthy adults - now suggest that
all adults take ...