April 17, 2008

Death risk from vitamins

Millions of people every day take some sort of vitamin, mineral or both and without a doubt every single one of them believes that these capsules or tablets are actually doing them good and why not? After all it is what they have been told over a long period of time.

But it seems that there could be a problem with the whole vitamin business and it is a very serious one too. There are growing concerns that for some people who take vitamins on a regular basis could be putting their life at risk.

The fact that researchers from the Copenhagen University in Denmark tested 230,000 people and found that Vitamin A could increase the dying by sixteen percent, beta carotene had a seven per cent risk and finally Vitamin E had a four per cent increase of death.

These figure are very worrying for parents and people who use vitamins, before any conclusions are made it is essential that this is clarified quickly.

Source [Guardian]