3 Popular Vitamins 'Useless'

by AP Staff - February 28th, 2007 - New York Post

A, E and C were too good to B true.

The vitamins - wildly popular for their antioxidant qualities and believed to help beat back everything from heart disease to cancer - actually do nothing to lengthen one's life, according to a startling analysis of dozens of studies.

What is worse is at the end of the article. ". . . . they actually found a higher risk of death for people taking vitamins: 4 percent for those taking vitamin E, 7 percent for beta carotene and 16 percent for vitamin A."

Now this is news more people need to hear. For a long time I have expressed the opinion that people need to worry when they try to overwhelm their digestive system with diets and medicines based on the premise that you can force good health by these techiques. It doesn't work. The human body is pretty good at taking what it needs from a balanced diet. Exercise is the one thing that we need . . . . and that we try to avoid. It is the one thing that will make the biggest difference.

Eat a balanced diet and do some light exercise.