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Downtown Chiropractic NewsletterVitamin E --- The REAL truthFor your personal information.... Most of the information contained in the following note is from the NIH (National Institutes of Health). The vitamin E study design was flawed. The researchers examined a group of chronically ill patients who were not expected to have good survival rates prior to taking Vitamin E, plus they used data from earlier studies that did not or barely qualified as scientific. The sheet below, in a PDF file, is from the government-funded National Institutes of Health. There are a plethora of studies that validate vitamin supplementation. The sheet link below gives the real facts of vitamin E based on research. The evidence for its effectiveness is in the research and not in false assumptions or conclusions. The study in the Wall street Journal on Vitimin E was flawed for several reasons. But most important, I think that for an established, well read, supposedly authoritative newspaper like the W.S.J., there is no excuse for failing to properly investigate the validity of the study particularly because of the consequences to people who stopped taking Vitamin E based on this article. As a result of the media generated by this study, an estimated 18% of the population that could benefit from this antioxidant have stopped. The problems with the study are as follows:
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