Millions of Americans take a daily multivitamin hoping it will help keep them healthy, and now a large clinical trial has shown that it actually works to prevent cancer — at least in older men.
The long-running Brigham and Women’s Hospital study involved nearly 15,000 male physicians over age 50 and found that those who took a Centrum Silver multivitamin, for an average of 11 years, had an 8 percent lower risk of getting cancer compared with those who were randomly chosen to get placebos.
“This is a modest reduction, but our results suggest that low doses of multiple vitamins and minerals in a supplement might work together to prevent disease beyond addressing vitamin and mineral
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