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Article: NEW RESEARCH QUESTIONS THE VALUE OF SUPPLEMENTS; Vitamins Lose Their Luster

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July 26, 1994
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Reading the news on vitamins is like plucking petals from a daisy: She loves me ... she loves me not. They're good for me ... and now they're not.

Last week another "not" petal fluttered to the ground. In a four-year study of more than 700 Americans, moderately high doses of vitamins C and E and beta carotene did not prevent the growth of polyps in the colon, which can develop over several years into colon cancer.

The report was the second in three months to suggest that antioxidant vitamins (so-called because they neutralize charged oxygen molecules that harm cells) lack the cancer-preventing

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