Word: vitamins
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...vitamin reverse the ill effects of smoking? Maybe. Early reports suggest that injections of VITAMIN C seem to repair the damage to the lining of smokers' arteries. Next, researchers plan to study whether vitamin pills have the same effect...
...VITAMIN E and stay perky? Studies on mice suggest that the nutrient, which is already thought to ward off cancer and heart disease, may also slow aging of the brain and the immune system...
...fact, a report in the current New England Journal of Medicine says yet again that they do. After examining over seven years the health and diet of nearly 35,000 postmenopausal women, doctors from the University of Minnesota and several other institutions found that those with diets richest in vitamin E had a 62% lower chance of dying from coronary heart disease than those whose diets had the least...
There's a catch, however. The benefit applied only to women who got their vitamins the old-fashioned way, in foods like nuts, margarine and vegetable oil. Vitamin-supplement takers, by contrast, seemed to get heart disease at pretty much the average rate. This phenomenon isn't limited to vitamin E. Two major studies released earlier this year--and reconfirmed in last week's New England Journal--showed that beta-carotene pills don't promote good health the way beta-carotene-rich foods (like carrots) do. Why should the same nutrient work when in food and not when in pills...
Until scientists figure out what's going on, it probably makes sense to eat as much natural vitamin E as the healthiest women in the study did: 10 international units daily, the amount found in three tablespoons of corn oil. If nothing else, it's a lot cheaper than buying vitamin pills...