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Get Your Vitamins From Food, Not Pills

Posted February 17, 2009 11:22 AM
Posted in food, multivitamin, nutrition, pills, vitamins
By Lindsey Tanner

CHICAGO -- The largest study ever of multivitamin use in older women found the pills did nothing to prevent common cancers or heart disease.

The eight-year study in 161,808 postmenopausal women echoes recent disappointing vitamin studies in men.

Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on vitamins to boost their health. Research has focused on cancer and heart disease in particular because of evidence that diets full of vitamin-rich foods may protect against those illnesses. But that evidence doesn't necessarily mean pills are a good substitute.

The study's lead author, researcher Marian Neuhouser of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, offered this advice: "Get nutrients from food. Whole foods are better than dietary supplements."

The study appears in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine.

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