Word: multivitamins
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...recent study by several researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital found that long-term multivitamin use may decrease colon cancer rates in women by up to 75 percent...
...Annals of Internal Medicine, details the results of a 15-year study of 121,700 registered nurses. The researchers, headed by SPH Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Nutrition Edward L. Giovannucci, found that of the 88,756 nurses eligible for the study, those who had taken multivitamin substitutes containing folic acid, otherwise known as folate, for more than 15 years had a markedly lower chance of getting colon cancer...
...study found that those women whose daily folate intake exceeded 400 micrograms due to continued use of multivitamin supplements for more than 15 years reduced their risk of getting colon cancer by 75 percent...
Jill Macquarrie '00 of Lowell House said she takes the multivitamin Centrum because "it sort of guarantees that you get everything...
...reported last week, of the Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing research program that is tracking the health habits of more than 120,000 nurses. Researchers determined that women who daily consumed at least 400 micrograms of folic acid--one of the B vitamins--in either leafy green vegetables or multivitamin pills reduced their risk of colon cancer as much as 75% over 15 years. Before you decide to replace broccoli with vitamins, however, remember that there are thousands of healthful compounds in fresh vegetables that simply can't be duplicated in a pill...