Healthacker.com » health study http://www.healthacker.com Health and wellness for geeks Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:50:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Do Multivitamins Measure Up? http://www.healthacker.com/2009/02/12/do-multivitamins-measure-up/ http://www.healthacker.com/2009/02/12/do-multivitamins-measure-up/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:19:43 +0000 Johnny http://www.healthacker.com/?p=919 It’s almost an age-old question.  Do multivitamins actually measure up?  Doing the daily ritual might make you feel better and give you a sense of health empowerment, but a recent study is questioning their effects.

About half of America pops a multivitamin or dietary supplement on a daily basis, which is why this is a $20 billion-per-year market.  According to the authors of a study released Tuesday, taking these daily supplements may not prevent anything.

The study focused on 162,000 post-menopausal women.  Four out of 10 of those women stated they took multivitamins on a daily basis.  At the end of the eight year study, the vitamin users were just as likely to have died or been diagnosed with common cancers or ailments,  or to have suffered heart-related maladies.

How does this affect your vitamin dosing?

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