Save your money on multi-vitamins
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 22:47 From the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter ( The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy ) the final word is save your money on those expensive multi-vitamins. This isn’t exactly breaking news, as I’ve been seeing small mentions of this before now, and already quit taking them. Tufts, however, is reporting that “the largest study ever of multimitamin use among older women has found that the pills made no significant difference in the risk of cancer, heart disease or overall mortality.”
The Tufts data is from research in the Archives of Internal Medicine, by Marian L. Neuhouser, Ph.D, of the Fred Hutchinson Research Center and colleagues. They noted that although the reasons and motivations of those who take multivitamins are wide ranging and vary greatly, fueled by product claims from the vitamin and supplement industry, yet “scientific data supporting the benefits of most supplements are lacking.”