Some Diet Pills can Kill

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 Bin those vitamin pills - they may be doing you far more harm than good

By Dominic Lawson

PUBLISHED: 01:47 GMT, 24 February 2014 | UPDATED: 01:47 GMT, 24 February 2014

 

A down-page item in Saturday’s Mail is surely of more significance to millions of people in this country.

Under the headline ‘Excess vitamin E raises prostate cancer risk’, this paper’s medical correspondent reported on a U.S. study of vitamin E and selenium supplements.

The former (naturally found in nuts, spinach and broccoli) is taken to boost the body’s immune system, the latter (found in fish and meat) to ward off heart disease.

Their findings are devastating.

 

Depending on how much selenium the men surveyed had in their diet prior to taking the supplement, their risks of getting the most aggressive ‘high grade’ form of prostate cancer increased by as much as  91 per cent. The overall increase in the risks of getting prostate cancer in those taking the vitamin E supplements was 63 per cent, while the risk of high-grade prostate cancer rose by 111 per cent.

 

Dr Alan Kristal, the project’s lead researcher from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, warned: ‘These supplements are popular, but men using them should stop, period. Neither of them confers any known benefits, only risks. Many people think that dietary supplements are helpful or at the least innocuous. This is not true.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2566363/Bin-vitamin-pills-doing-far-harm-good.html#ixzz2uCtkYhXC
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