According to the Wall Street Journal, and other major papers including USA Today, there is a backlash against certain vitamins as doing more harm than good.  Story titles have been something like this: " Recent studies show that vitamins don't help and may actually cause harm, ...The case against vitamins, and the like... 

Unfortunately, this alarming message may scare many people away from beneficial vitamins with a long history of health benefits and safety.  Here are some of the recent denouncements against antioxidants:

• Vitamin E boosts death rates 4-6%, according to  cardiologist Edgar Miller who authored one of the most criticized studies ever conducted on vitamin E.  Vitamin E researchers, at Tuft's University: especially, Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, Chief of Antioxidant research there said that Dr. Miller's findings were so absurd that his conclusion would mean that Vitamin E caused more deaths than smoking.
• Vitamin A was blamed for causing hip fractures in postmenopausal women. This study was refuted by a Harvard study that suggested that higher vitamin A levels were tied to lower incidence of fractures.  Beta carotene has also been blamed for higher cancer incidence in smokers, and this study in a Finnish study has been broadcasted in the "case against vitamins".
• Vitamin C has been reported to cause cancer and even death despite very recent stellar research by the National Institutes of Health.  According to researchers there, high doses of Vitamin C rapidly killed 100% of lymphoma cells, as well as 9 other types of cancer.  Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E selectively target cancer cells, leaving normal cells unharmed, unlike conventional treatment.
• The idea that antioxidant treatment interferes with conventional cancer treatment is a theoretical statement and has never been proven. It was widely quoted by Andrew Weil, although there was no research behind it.  
• The take home lesson is to remember that drug companies are fueling much of this "research", and are big advertisers in the newspapers and magazines in which this flawed information is reported.
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