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    Folic Acid and the Risk of Lung Cancer – A Response to a Scientific Publication

    In Expert opinion · November 30, 2009

    “The publication under discussion (1) involves the combined evaluation of 2 placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized clinical studies (RCTs): NORVIT, Norwegian Vitamin Trial (2), and Western Norway B Vitamin Intervention Trial (3).

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    Antioxidants Promote Tumor Cell Growth – Critical Notes on an In Vitro Experiment

    In Expert opinion · November 1, 2009

    “The headline ‘The dark side of vitamin C’ recently appeared in the German newspaper service ‘Die Welt online,’ prompted by an American study showing that artificial antioxidants (N-acetyl cysteine and Trolox) support the metabolism of tumor cells that have become detached from the tumor and could thus promote metastasis.”

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    Are Multivitamins Useless?

    In Expert opinion · September 28, 2009

    “A study published recently, which followed 161,808 women from the Women's Health Initiative over eight years, claimed to provide ‘convincing evidence that multivitamin use has little or no influence on the risk of common cancers, cardiovascular disease, or total mortality in postmenopausal women.’ This message was immediately sent around the world by the news media, leading people everywhere to believe that taking a daily multivitamin does no good and is a waste of money. Is it, really? Actually, nothing could be further from the truth.”

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    What Vitamins Can and Cannot Do

    In Expert opinion · May 1, 2009

    “Every micronutrient unfolds a specific effect in the human organism. These effects are complex, sometimes dose-dependent and can vary from one type of tissue or organ to another;

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    Vitamins E and C Supposedly Increase Risk of Diabetes in Athletes ─ A Critical Examination of Study Results

    In Expert opinion · May 1, 2009

    “Antioxidants, vitamins C and E in particular, are suspected of increasing the risk of diabetes in athletes” – this message is a reaction by the press to a study by Ristow et al.

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    Vitamin D Levels in Germany Insufficient – Experts Discern a Need to Act

    In Expert opinion · March 30, 2009

    “Children from socially deprived families, older people and people from ethnic minorities are worst affected, but there is a nation-wide deficiency of vitamin D in the general population which needs to be addressed.

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    Folic Acid and the Risk of Prostate Cancer ─ A Comment on the Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial

    In Expert opinion · March 1, 2009

    “On March 10, 2009, a summary of a study was published which reports a higher incidence of prostate cancer after several years’ (up to 10.8 years, median 7 years) intake of folic acid.

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    Questionable Speculations on the Increase in Lung Cancer Risk from Vitamin A and Carotenoids ─ A Comment on the VITAL Study Results

    In Expert opinion · February 1, 2009

    “A recently published evaluation of data from the VITamins And Lifestyle cohort study discusses the connection between antioxidants and the incidence of lung cancer.

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