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...more likely to take supplements to make up for their spotty diets. Instead, researchers found the opposite. When they analyzed the results of a national survey of more than 10,000 children and adolescents ages 2 through 17, they found that those who were most likely to take vitamin and mineral supplements were those who needed them least - in other words, youngsters in higher-income families, who ate consistent and nutritious meals. (See 9 kid foods to avoid...
...loss. You also do a series of blood tests looking for thyroid disease, iron levels. Dietary causes are amazing causes of hair loss. So women who diet or are bulimic or very thin women who don't have much meat on their bones may very well be nutritionally deprived, vitamin deprived, and they will end up with hair loss as well...
...SELECT study did not take into account participants' baseline levels of vitamin E, but researchers say they are likely to reanalyze the data in the future to determine whether a subgroup of people with low levels of the vitamin received any benefit from supplements...
There is something undeniably alluring about being able to prevent cancer with a vitamin. More than half of American adults take vitamin supplements, not only to make up for deficiencies in their diet, but also in the hope of staving off diseases like cancer and heart disease. Though these recent trials - including two big studies in November that showed no benefit of vitamins E and C for heart disease, or vitamin D and calcium against invasive breast cancer - don't support that idea, they don't rule out the possibility that getting vitamins from dietary sources rather than supplements could...
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