Multivitamins - a waste of money

Multivitamin preparations does not give anything to our health. That is the conclusion reached by experts from the hospital St George's Hospital in London.

Regularly taking multivitamins people get cancer or cardiovascular illnesses with exactly the same frequency as those who do not accept them. Do not look for extra protection of their health with the help of a multivitamin - it will not. This conclusion the researchers for more than six years have seen a group of 8000 people.

Some people took multivitamins And the other part was sitting on the pacifier. The effect was the same - and they both fell ill with various serious illnesses with exactly the same probability. Furthermore, and general health of all people did not differ. The researchers interviewed them about the state of health, mood, energy, etc. Responses in the two groups were identical.

According to the authors, buying multivitamins   Citizens simply throwing money away, filling the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies. The most common multivitamin drink perfectly healthy people who want to thus protect against possible serious illnesses.

"Multivitamin tablets are those who hope to use them to prevent develop Alzheimer's disease, heart attack or cancer, - said the study's author, senior nutritionist St George's Hospital Katherine Collins. - But it's a waste of money. We have conducted the most extensive and carefully prepared a study on the this topic".

Moreover, last year published the results of two studies have shown that taking vitamin supplements may even increase the risk of developing cancer.

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