The Great Vitamin Flap
September, 1994
To the vitamin-gobbling faithful it was as if the Pope had been revealed as an atheist: On April 14, a front page New York Times headline read Vitamin Supplements are seen as no Guard Against Diseases: Study Upsets View Concerning Heart and Cancer.The study, conducted under the aegis of the National Cancer Institute and the National Public Health Institute in Finland, examined 29,000 Finnish men, aged 50 and older, all of whom were heavy smokers. One group of subjects took vitamin A in the form...
