A startling connection between multi-vitamins and breast cancer occurrence has prompted doctors to caution older women against a daily multi-vitamin, unless absolutely needed. According to the results of a Swedish study, the vitamins may be linked to breast cancer.
The authors of the study cannot outright confirm the correlation between the two but suggest the matter needs further research. The study was led by Dr. Susanna C. Larsson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The study followed 35,000 Swedish women between the ages of 49 and 83 over a ten year period. All the women were cancer free at the onset, with 974 developing breast cancer throughout the course of the study.
Women who took daily vitamins were 19 percent more likely to develop breast cancer. 9,000 women in the study were vitamin users with 293 developing the often fatal disease. Only 681 of the remaining 26,000 women developed breast cancer. A relatively small number of women who took the daily vitamins were diagnosed with breast cancer, which lends to the suggestion that if there is a risk, it is very modest.
Larsson advises that women who are eating a well-balanced diet, do not need a multi-vitamin.
The study has been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
THIS IS A FAT LIE!!!! EVERYTHING IS DONE TO TURN PEOPLE AWAY FROM NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS, WHY DON’T YOU TALK ABOUT MEDICINES PRESCRIBED BY DOCTORS WHICH CAUSE THOUSANDS OF DEATHS EVERY YEAR? THE FOOD WE EAT IS CONTAMINATED WITH GM MANIPULATION, ASPARTAME, TALK ABOUT FLUORIDE IN THE WATER, THE SOIL BEING DEPLETED AND NOT MUCH NUTRITION FOUND IN TRADITIONALLY GROWN FOOD ETC. BE HONEST, DO YOU REALLY THINK PEOPLE ARE STUPID?????
This is outrageous.But no surprise,Codex Alimentarius is in place since 1/1/2010,so we can expect more stupid articles like this one.
Yes the study does require further research. If approx 8 out of a 100 women get breast cancer. The figure of 293 women getting breast cancer out of 9000 is low. It is only 0.65% greater than the 26000 women who didn’t take a multivitamin.Perhaps it is just another incidence of scaremongering. Research and statistics are only accurate if there pure and not manipulated.