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There's no need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only 30 IUs of vitamin E, and this has long been shown to be a safe amount. And 400 IUs may yet prove to be fine. For complicated statistical reasons, the heart- failure finding could easily be a fluke, the study's coordinating investigator readily admits...
...website offers nine general tips to avoid all of the conditions it deals with, including maintaining a healthy weight, taking a multivitamin with folate every day and exercising regularly...
...death. Vitamin lovers were spooked by the results, but they may have got too scared too soon. Critics condemn the study as statistically flawed, particularly because of its small sample group (423 people). Even so, if you insist on popping vitamin pills, you may want to stick with a multivitamin, which everyone agrees is safe. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...Peter Wilson, of the Boston University School of Medicine, who wrote an editorial accompanying the two JAMA articles: "If you're already at high risk for heart disease, having your homocysteine levels tested is probably appropriate. If you're in good health, there's no point." Taking a multivitamin with 400 micrograms of folic acid certainly won't hurt. An even better idea, as always, is to eat plenty of leafy green vegetables, since they're high in the sorts of natural compounds that not only protect your heart but also may reduce your cancer risk...
...They reduce high levels of the amino acid homocysteine, which is believed to contribute to Alzheimer's. "It makes sense to have a diet that's rich in folic acid, fresh fruits, legumes and vegetables," says UCLA's Small. "And it can't hurt to take a multivitamin, which has 0.4 milligrams of folic acid and some...