Taking a multivitamin and multimineral supplement each day can reduce a
man’s risk of developing cancer by 8 percent.
While that might not sound
like much, if every adult man in the United States took a multi, the
incidence of cancer would decrease by tens of thousands each year. J.
michael Gaziano, mD, of the Harvard medical School and his colleagues
asked 14,641 male physicians to take either a multivitamin/multimineral
supplement or placebo daily for an average of 11 years.
The study
included 1,312 men who had already been diagnosed with cancer. The 8
percent reduction in risk reflected a decrease in cancer diagnoses
overall.
The researchers did not find a specific reduction in the
diagnosis of prostate cancer.
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