Study Finds No Benefit From Daily Multivitamin

Lisa Mui
Source from: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/study-finds-no-benefit-from-daily-multivitamin/
(The New York Times)

The point of this article was to argue that according to new research, multivitamins intake doesn’t help prevent cancer or heart disease. Multivitamins are the most universally used supplement; about half of America’s population uses vitamins or dietary supplements. Americans invests $20 billion dollars a year on the numerous vitamin and dietary supplement products but is it all down the drain?
The study that was done to support this research involved 161,808 women and they were all part of a government-funded Women’s Health Initiative (W.H.I.) research program. After obtaining all the information, researchers were shocked to find that there is no solid evidence to verify that multivitamins providing any benefits at all.