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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">Dr. Mirkin: Eat Real Foods Instead of Popping Pills</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted May 1, 2008 at 04:00 PM by Alexandra M. Haller</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">One in three women and one in four men in the United States take vitamin pills. If you are among them, you may be doing more harm than good.&nbsp; In a wake-up call to the multibillion dollar vitamin pill industry, a review of 67 randomized trials of vitamin pill effects on life and health has found that taking vitamin pills may shorten life (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 1, 2008).&nbsp; Other studies have shown that taking vitamin pills may increase risk for cancers and heart attacks. This review of 232,000 adults showed that those taking beta-carotene, vitamin A, C, and E and selenium gained no benefit over those who took placebos or no pills.&nbsp; “The findings show that, if anything, people in trial groups given beta-carotene, vitamin A and vitamin E showed increased rates of mortality. There…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/dr-mirkin-eat-real-foods-instead-of-popping-pills/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/healthy-eating/">healthy-eating</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/supplements/">supplements</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>