Vitamins
The low down on vitamin E: addressing recent safety concerns regarding the vitamin
Date: 14/12/06
Keywords: Vitamins,
Don't you hate it when vitamin supplements kill you?Well.
Don't you hate it when vitamin supplements kill you?
Well...you and I would hate it, but the mainstream media LOVED it about two years ago when a Johns Hopkins analysis of 19 vitamin E studies concluded that supplementing with more than 400 IU per day might slightly increase the risk of death.
'Run for your lives! The vitamin E sky is falling!'
That was the general tone of media coverage back then. Of course, most of the reports overlooked the fact that the Hopkins researchers actually admitted that the trials they examined were mostly small studies that involved patients with chronic diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and kidney failure.
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