Cancer, Cancer Treatment

Vitamins are beneficial for your health ? no medical officials are denying that. Many are encouraged to take vitamin supplements to compensate for the vitamins they can no longer get from food, from different reasons.

Consequently, millions of Americans are trying to stay healthy ? or healthier ? by taking vitamins. Despite the obvious benefits, these vitamin supplements do not reduce one?s chances of developing heart diseases, breast cancer or having strokes. This information is the result of two large, very important studies that were just published today.

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TUESDAY, Nov. 4 — Taking folic acid or other B vitamin supplements won’t lower your risk of cancer, new research shows.

However, the good news is that it won’t increase your risk either, according to the study, which was published in the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“In women at risk of cardiovascular disease, we found that folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 had no beneficial or harmful effects on the risk of invasive cancer or breast cancer,” said study author Dr. Shumin Zhang, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.

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TUESDAY, Nov. 4 — Taking folic acid or other B vitamin supplements won’t lower your risk of cancer, new research shows.

However, the good news is that it won’t increase your risk either, according to the study, which was published in the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“In women at risk of cardiovascular disease, we found that folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 had no beneficial or harmful effects on the risk of invasive cancer or breast cancer,” said study author Dr. Shumin Zhang, an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston.

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