Not Hair Loss News – Multivitamins Provide No Benefits for Heart Disease or Cancer
Snippet from the article:
There’s more disappointing news about multivitamins: Two major studies found popping the pills didn’t protect aging men’s brains or help heart attack survivors.
Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on vitamin combinations, presumably to boost their health and fill gaps in their diets. But while people who don’t eat enough of certain nutrients may be urged to get them in pill form, the government doesn’t recommend routine vitamin supplementation as a way to prevent chronic diseases.
The studies released Monday are the latest to test if multivitamins might go that extra step and concluded they don’t.
Read the rest — Multivitamin study: No benefits for heart disease, cancer or heart attack
What the article reflects is the benefits directly to a multi-billion dollar industry (vitamins), with what is apparently little value received in return.
Interesting read! I’d agree, proper diet is more important. I wonder why multivitamins in general weren’t found to be that effective