Why was Vit E chosen?
We get vitamin E in a wide range of foods, especially vegetables, vegetable oils, nuts, and egg yolks. Vitamin E, like selenium, is an antioxidant, which may help control cell damage that can lead to cancer. In a 1998 study of 29,133 male smokers in, 32 percent fewer new cases of prostate cancer and 40 percent fewer deaths from prostate cancer were observed among men who took vitamin E to prevent lung cancer than among men who took a placebo. Some men also took beta carotene, but neither substance helped prevent lung cancer and beta carotene did not affect prostate cancer. Is there a now place for dietary supplements? These results and concerns do not necessarily insinuate there is no place at all for supplements. Instead it emphasises that caution should be taken, especially if long term consumption may take place of a one tablet fits all where chemicals if not excreted fast enough could accumulate in the body. There is likely to be a place for good quality supplements after cancer bu
