Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week without the benefit of Harvard University Dining Services can do strange things to people. I adopted the vitamin in the morning, plenty of carbonated fluids, and a decent dinner plan for my diet. And for the first time, I envied the first-years crammed into the Union...
...even the insidest insiders resist the obvious implication that they use networking--rather than the strength of their arguments--to persuade legislators. One Senate committee has frustrated past efforts by the vitamin industry to fend off increased federal regulations. So one industry association hired a former employee of the committee chair to press its case...
...Folk wisdom, as well as some medical research, has suggested that megadoses of vitamins may prevent breast cancer. Not true, says a new, large-scale study. An investigation of nearly 90,000 women over the course of a decade has found no evidence that vitamin C or E offers any protection at all. Vitamin A supplements don't help either, unless a woman gets too little in her diet...
Megadoses of vitamin E, commonly thought to slow the progress of retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary form of blindness, actually make the disease worse, according to a controlled study of 600 sufferers. Only vitamin A seems to help...
...Vitamin E appears to prevent clogging of the arteries...