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Now with added mortality!

I'm in the land of Diet Coke Plus, the absurd end-point to the fad of adding nutrients to food from which those same nutrients were systematically stripped out.

So there's no small amount of schadenfreude on hearing that the supplementation of ones diet with these vitamins might, er, kill you.

The study is looked at the diet of nearly a quarter of a million people, tracing the impact of anti-oxidants. The result? "Beta-carotene, vitamin A, and vitamin E seem to increase mortality..." ... read more »

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Posted on 16 April, 2008 - 12:31