LONDON: If you are banking on a vitamin supplement daily to make up for any deficiencies in your diet, you may be getting a whole lot more, or actually less, than you bargained for.
Researchers in Europe have carried out a study and found that people who rely on vitamin pills, instead of eating a healthy diet of fresh fruits and vegetables, are doing more harm than good.
According to them, three supplements -- Vitamin A, Vitamin E and beta carotene -- can increase mortality rates among those taking them. However, Vitamin C and selenium pills have no effect as such.
"Our findings contradict the findings of observational studies claiming that antioxidants (commonly found in Vitamin supplements) improve health," the British media quoted lead researcher Goran Bjelakovic of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark as saying.
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