Can a multivitamin prevent heart disease? Not if you use a junk multi

Let’s see. If you take junk and give it to thousands of middle-aged men…

(let me get out my calculator here)

…by my calculation, you get… Junk.

That was easy!

According to a new study, multivitamin use doesn’t reduce heart disease risk.

Okay — before I go any further, do you remember that other multivitamin study I told you about recently? It’s the one where multi use reduced cancer risk by a scant percentage.

This new study used data collected from the same source. It’s the Physicians’ Health Study II. The vitamin used was Centrum Silver. And as already noted, the potency is laughably low.

So… Have you ever gone tiger hunting with a kitchen spatula?

If you ever do, you’ll get about the same results as you’ll get trying to prevent heart disease with a low-potency multivitamin.

Oh, and just to make things interesting, this group of over-50 men included some who had already had heart attacks or strokes.

The National Institutes of Health funded this study. They might as well have dumped that cash into the Grand Canyon.

Sources:
“Health Buzz: Multivitamins Don’t Prevent Heart Disease: Study” Laura McMullen, U.S. News & World Report, 11/6/12, health.usnews.com