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02/10/2009

Multivitamins Disappoint

The largest study of multivitamin use in older women found that they did nothing to prevent common cancers or heart disease. The study's lead author and researcher Marian Neuhouser, gave this advice, "Get nutrients from food. Whole foods are better than dietary supplements."

Research has focused on cancer and heart disease in particular because of evidence that diets full of vitamin-rich foods may protect against them, while multivitamin use has little or no effect.

After reading the result of this study, Aditya Bardia, an oncolorgy fellow at Johns Hopkins University responded with, "Population studies have shown that if you eat fruits and vegetables, your chances of cancers are relatively low compared to people with deficient diets. But when they tried to convert those nutrients into tablets, that's where the failure has been."

Nature's Logic is the only line of pet food which provides whole food nutrition without added synthetic vitamins and minerals. This follows the recommendation by this and other research, that whole foods are better than man made vitamins and minerals.

For others article on this research use the following links:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090209/D968BGTG0.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/10/multivitamins.cancer/