Many of us take vitamins for the belief that they improve health and prevent diseases. However recently on February 28 2007, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published the largest analysis of data on antioxidant vitamins ever conducted; with a total of 232,606 participants for the 68 total trials. The data used in this study involved beta-carotene, vitamin A, vitamin E, selenium and vitamin C. This study indicates that vitamin A, E and beta-carotene are associated with an increase risk in mortality at the doses studied. However, vitamin A and beta-carotene seem to hav...
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