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Vitamin supplements: finally ... advice for the really confused.
Do vitamin study flip-flops have you totally confused? To help you sort things out, we've scrutinized the research and weighed the conflicting evidence. And now, we're confused too.
If you take vitamin E to ward off heart disease, you were likely shocked by the study published June 14 in The Lancet. Researchers reported that vitamin E capsules have no effect on the risk of death from cardiovascular disease--or on the risk of death from any other cause, for that matter.
So is vitamin E a waste of time and money? The answer is simple. Yes and no.
The numerous patients studied indicated some risk factor for a pre-cardiac condition. In other words, they weren't necessarily free of heart disease. So the study suggests that if you already have heart disease, taking vitamin E won't prolong your life.
But if you have a healthy heart, will long-term vitamin E supplementation actually keep you from acquiring cardiovascular disease? OK ... that we still don't know.
Right Is Wrong
Meanwhile, experts say vitamin E ingested in the form of food is absorbed much more readily than from capsules. So we should eat more walnuts and other E-rich foods, right? Right. And then, we wouldn't need vitamin E capsules, right? Wrong.
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