Latest News on Vitamins and Health

Vitamin C fights cancer, but not the way we thought: study (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Monday September 10th 2007, 11:10 pm

Vitamin C can help to prevent cancer, but not the way that scientists thought, according to a study published Monday in the United States. [News Source]

White Plains tester gives some B-vitamins failing grade (The Journal News)
Monday September 10th 2007, 9:44 pm

WHITE PLAINS - ConsumerLab.com, a company that evaluates nutritional supplements, reported today that three of the 10 B-complex supplements it recently tested were found to lack the total amount of vitamin B-9 claimed on the products' labels. [News Source]

Vitamin E ‘may reduce blood clots in women’ (Stuff)
Monday September 10th 2007, 8:23 pm

Regular doses of vitamin E may reduce the risk of life-threatening blood clots in women, researchers have reported. [News Source]

Take Vitamin D, Live Longer? (CBS News)
Monday September 10th 2007, 7:48 pm

People who take vitamin D supplements may be more likely to outlive other people, French and Italian researchers report. [News Source]

Vitamin C may inhibit tumor growth (UPI)
Monday September 10th 2007, 6:29 pm

U.S. researchers link the possible anti-cancer effect of anti-oxidants such as vitamin C to their inhibiting effect on the free radicals which promote tumors. [News Source]

Vitamin D Supplements May Lengthen Life (HealthCentral.com)
Monday September 10th 2007, 5:50 pm

Copyright © 2007 ScoutNews, LLC . All rights reserved. MONDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) — Vitamin D supplements could prolong your life, a new European study suggests.

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Vitamin E may reduce blood clots in women: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday September 10th 2007, 4:36 pm

Regular doses of vitamin E may reduce the risk of life-threatening blood clots in women, researchers reported on Monday. [News Source]

Vitamin D supplements cuts early death risk: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday September 10th 2007, 4:33 pm

People who take regular doses of vitamin D have a significantly lower risk of dying early than those who do not use supplements, according to new research published on Monday. [News Source]

Study shows vitamin C’s cancer-fighting properties (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday September 10th 2007, 4:15 pm

Vitamin C can impede the growth of some types of tumors although not in the way some scientists had suspected, researchers reported on Monday. [News Source]

Vitamin D Supplements May Lengthen Life (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Monday September 10th 2007, 4:01 pm

MONDAY, Sept. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Vitamin D supplements could prolong your life, a new European study suggests. [News Source]

Vitamin C a surprise cancer fighter (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Monday September 10th 2007, 3:42 pm

Vitamin C can impede the growth of some types of tumors although not in the way some scientists had suspected, researchers reported on Monday. [News Source]

Vitamin C curbs growth of cancer tumours: study (Hindustan Times)
Monday September 10th 2007, 3:29 pm

Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate US biochemist Linus Pauling suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, researchers from Johns Hopkins Institute in Baltimore have confirmed that in mice at least, vitamin C and potentially other antioxidants can inhibit the growth of some cancer tumours. [News Source]