Multivitamins May Help Prevent Cancer

[The Watcher]

Multivitamins May Help Prevent Cancer

October 22, 2012 5:28 PM

WebMD Medical News
By Kathleen Doheny
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Oct. 17, 2012 (Anaheim, Calif.) — Taking a daily multivitamin for years may lower the risk of cancer, according to new research.
The study followed nearly 15,000 middle-aged and older men for about 11 years. It is not yet clear if the findings would apply to women or younger men.

“The main findings were a reduction in total cancers of 8%,” says researcher J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH, a researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

”Our main message is that the main reason to take a multivitamin is to prevent nutritional deficiency,” Gaziano said at a news briefing today at an American Association for Cancer Research meeting held here.
“It appears there is a modest benefit for cancer reduction in men over 50,” he said.

The findings are also published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

More:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/10/...revent-cancer/

[a777pilot]

Why not just eat food?

[Miradus]

Why not just eat food?

All well and good ... if you eat REAL food.

If you're eating store-bought food then you're not getting your proper doses of vitamins. Guaranteed.

Back to the original article, this lends some credence to the theory that cancer may just be a vitamin deficiency like scurvy or rickets.

[PammieAnnie]

Never cared for most multivitamins given their metallic aftertaste, so was intrigued by Centrum's new fruit flavored ones. The first ingredient listed is SUCROSE, and apparently one is supposed to eat 3-4 per day.

Even our vitamins are toxic.

[fugeguy]

no money in mv's