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General Category => Discover Seattle! => Topic started by: TehBorken on Mar 01 07 11:05

Title: Vitamins bad for you?
Post by: TehBorken on Mar 01 07 11:05
[font id="Zoom"]Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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[font id="Zoom"]    BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Vitamin supplements taken  by millions of people every day to stave off disease and slow the aging  process may increase their risk of death, media Thursday quoted researchers as  saying.  [/font][/p][font id="Zoom"]    An international research team from Copenhagen  University Hospital reviewed the published evidence on beta carotene, vitamin A,  vitamin E, Vitamin C and selenium which were taken by people for the purpose to  improve health and guard against diseases like cancer and heart disease by  eliminating the free radicals.  [/font][/p][font id="Zoom"]    However, they claimed that these supplements could  cause "oxidative stress" and damage and kill off cells.[/font][/p][font id="Zoom"][a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/01/content_5787026.htm"]http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/01/content_5787026.htm[/a]
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Title: Re: Vitamins bad for you?
Post by: Russ on Mar 01 07 11:08
I have my doubts when china releases something.