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...British research journal Lancet of one of the largest and most rigorous studies to date. Doctors in Italy randomly divided 11,000 heart-attack patients into four groups. All were given standard medical care, but some took a fish-oil capsule every day, while others received 300 mg of vitamin E, or vitamin E and fish oil, or just a placebo pill. After two years, only those patients who took fish-oil supplements reduced their risk of dying from a second heart attack, by an average of 17%. Vitamin E had no effect...
...they ever tell you to take your folic acid vitamin...
...There is no question folic acid is a very important vitamin," said Rosenthal, who is also a former president of the American Cancer Society...
Folic acid, or folate, is a B vitamin. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website, folic acid can prevent up to 70 percent of neural tube birth defects when taken before and during pregnancy...
...that choice implies a serious lack of maturity and responsibility: Tonight, we're offered two choices in equal parts: A handful of cavity-causing marshmallows from Fox and NBC or a fistful of vitamin-rich carrot sticks from CBS and ABC. Everyone knows the carrots are better for us, but since the marshmallows happen to be there...