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Article: Federal panel uncertain as to value of vitamins: Group ordered review of all vitamin studies in past 40 years to complete report
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- June 5, 2006
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Confused about taking vitamins? So is the government.
A staple on U.S. store shelves since the 1930s, vitamins have been
the focus of hundreds of studies. Vitamins have also mushroomed into
a $7 billion per year business. More than half of all Americans take
them in one form or another.
Lacking a consensus on whether vitamins actually work, a federal
panel this spring completed its search for evidence that they help
people stay healthy by preventing cancer and other diseases.
The group commissioned a review of every vitamin study conducted
during the past 40 years, met with the scientists who conducted that
review and held a three-day conference last month to question leading
experts.
The ...