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...years, doctors advised their patients that the only thing taking multivitamins does is give them expensive urine. After all, true vitamin deficiencies, such as scurvy and pellagra, are practically unheard of in industrialized countries. Now it seems those doctors may have been wrong. The results of a growing number of studies suggest that even a modest vitamin shortfall can be harmful to your health. Although proof of the benefits of multivitamins is still far from certain, the few dollars you spend on them is probably a good investment...
...least that's the argument put forward in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. Ideally, say Dr. Walter Willett and Dr. Meir Stampfer of Harvard, all vitamin supplements would be evaluated in scientifically rigorous clinical trials. But those studies can take a long time and often raise more questions than they answer. At some point, while researchers work on figuring out where the truth lies, it just makes sense to say the potential benefit outweighs the cost...
...best evidence to date concerns folate, one of the B vitamins. It's been proved to limit the number of neural-tube defects in embryos, and a recent double-blind randomized trial found that folate in combination with vitamin B12 and a form of B6 also decreases the reblockage of coronary arteries after angioplasty. Look for a supplement that contains 400 micrograms of folate...
...GADS! Vitamin E is supposed to help heart patients, right? Doctors used to think so. But a new study suggests that loading up on E--and other so-called antioxidants, including vitamin C--does little or nothing to prevent future heart attacks or strokes in patients with coronary disease. In fact, there's evidence that the vitamins may actually blunt the effects of widely used cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and niacin. Can you still hope that vitamin E will prevent heart disease in the first place? Until research proves otherwise...
...chance to make the arduous ten minute journey into Boston but spend hours playing Snood, chatting banally on Instant Messenger or searching the Internet for virtual girls when they should out be looking for real dates? E-mail seems as vital to Harvard students’ existence as Vitamin C. Administrators should arrest these worrying trends, not encourage them...