The New York Times published a piece (sure to piss off the industry) about how vitamins supplements, a $23 billion industry, might be hurting, not helping us. An excerpt:
"…are vitamins worth it? In the past few years, several high-quality studies have failed to show that extra vitamins, at least in pill form, help prevent chronic disease or prolong life.
The latest news came last week after researchers in the Women's Health Initiative study tracked eight years of multivitamin use among more than 161,000 older women. Despite earlier findings suggesting that multivitamins might lower the risk for heart disease and certain cancers, the study, published in The Archives of Internal Medicine, found no such benefit." Read more…
This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2009.