Some experts suggest that shifting the focus from supplements to food may provide benefits vitamins cannot deliver.
Many people across the world take supplements with the hope of improving their health, but benefits and harms of regular multivitamin use remain unclear.
In the initial years of the study, the researchers actually found that the risk of death was 4% higher among multivitamin users, compared with nonusers. However, they say it is important to also study the potential impact of regular multivitamin use on other health conditions associated with ageing. Writing in a linked commentary, Neal Barnard, Hana Kahleova and Roxanne Becker, of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington, said: “Refocusing nutrition interventions on food, rather than supplements, may provide the mortality benefits that multivitamins cannot deliver.
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