beta carotene supplements DON'T prevent cancer or heart disease

February 1996

Here's a big surprise. It now looks like beta carotene supplements DON'T prevent cancer or heart disease.

Lots of people had jumped on this bandwagon...taking extra vitamin A and beta carotene supplements.

But now the huge Physician's Health Study, involving over 22,000 physicians, just ended. Half took beta carotene and half took placebo for 12 years. The results show that supplements do NOT protect against cancer or heart disease.

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