Taking multivitamins has always been thought to prevent cancer, decrease the chance of heart disease, as well as other unwanted health issues.

The Women’s Health Initiative study (WHI) may have suddenly rained on the hope of supplement users in preventing disease.

The study, published in the Archives Of Internal Medicine, tracked 161,800 post menopausal women for 8 years. The main objective of this multivitamin study was to determine if taking nutritional supplements would decrease the chance of illness such as preventing cancer compared to women who didn’t take multi-vitamins.

The study concluded that taking multivitamins did not prevent cancer, as well as any other unwanted diseases. The individuals who took multivitamins for 8 years had the same cancer rates, heart disease rates, and death rates as those who didn’t take vitamin supplements.

The bottom line is taking nutritional supplements such as multivitamins does not serve as a magic bullet in preventing disease. Therefore, according to the rather extensive 8 year study, it is fair to say not to rely on vitamins to prevent cancer, heart disease, and even death. They most likely will not work.

My thoughts on this topic is to, instead, get your vitamins, and minerals through food. Food possesses other powerful properties that multivitamins don’t contain to prevent diseases such as cancer. These properties, or compounds are not found in multivitamins, and can’t be created through chemistry.

The best way of preventing cancer is to eat fruits, vegetables on a daily bases, keep your weight down, exercise on a regular basis, and have good genes.

Please be advised this extensive study was conducted on post menopausal women only. I would like to see an even larger study comprised of men and women of from age 30 on before I write off vitamins altogether.

After reviewing the research regarding disease prevention, please don’t feel multivitamins are the magic bullets in fighting cancer, and heart

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