Multivitamin/mineral supplements … people expect this type of supplement to improve their health. However, the efficacy of these supplements to prevent chronic disease or premature death is not proven, and the National Institutes of Health do not recommend multivitamin/mineral supplements for this purpose …. in the current study, there was no clear decrease or increase in mortality from all causes, cardiovascular diseases, or cancer among multivitamin supplement users. Moreover, the risk of morbidity from overall or major cancers did not differ between multivitamin users and nonusers
Category Archives: Cancer
Fung et al. (2010) Low-carbohydrate diets and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: two cohort studies
A vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet is probably healthier than an animal-based low-carbohydrate diet …. Diets that emphasized animal sources of fat and protein were associated with higher all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality, whereas diets that emphasized vegetable sources of fat and protein were associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality …. Both men and women who had higher overall and animal low-carbohydrate scores had higher BMI and were more likely to be current smokers but had lower intakes of fruits and vegetables
