Word: vitaminic
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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 have a tendency to raise the level of LDL, or "bad cholesterol." No one knows if that's a healthy trade-off or for whom. Pregnant women in particular should be careful about fish-oil supplements. Taking cod liver oil, for example, can lead to an overdose of vitamin A, which can in turn cause birth defects. Some nutritionists speculate that omega-6 fatty acids--found in corn and many other vegetable oils--may limit the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. But here again, the evidence is incomplete. "We have a long way to go before...
...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...