For years scientists have been saying there's not much evidence to recommend vitamin supplements for most people, with a growing body of research suggesting most of the pills are useless and don't necessarily make us any healthier.
There are some important caveats to bear in mind, however, as not all the findings were equivocal.
"We found that there is no benefit to taking vitamin E and that beta-carotene can be harmful because it increases the risk of lung cancer in people already at risk,"Apart from those limitations, though, the new recommendations essentially restate what many scientists have been telling us for years – there's no real proof these pills are good for us.– there's also not much to suggest they're bad for us, either.
Unfortunately, all the evidence we have doesn't really bear that assumption out, suggesting that, for reasons we still don't fully understand, micronutrients in isolation from other natural dietary components don't seem to offer the same health benefits as when they're bundled up and eaten in foods.
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