Vitamins may be bad for your heart

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1097937,00.html

.... New research suggests that far from reducing the risk, vitamin pills may

increase the levels of the ³bad² form of cholesterol by interfering with

liver function. Since this form of cholesterol is strongly linked to an

increased risk of a heart attack, the effect of the vitamins may be the

precise opposite of what people hope for.

A team from New York and Philadelphia, led by Fisher, of New York

University School of Medicine, found that vitamins C, E and beta-carotene,

far from boosting the body¹s defences, undermined them. ...