Vitamin E not anti-aging will let you short-lived?

United Kingdom food standards agency former adviser Brian-Ratcliff recently said that the United Kingdom each year total cost of approximately 600 million pounds (about 992 million) for the purchase of multivitamin tablets, but some users do not lack of vitamins in the body.

This kind of "no disease eat medicine" is not only a waste of money, but also may cause harm to the body.

Excessive worry

Is teaching in Robert-Gordon University Ratcliff said, many people worry about their health, to take vitamin tablets to "insurance".

United Kingdom the daily mail on 10 may quote what he said: "many people taking vitamins without think why you want to use, how many appropriate and are taking the medication.

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In his view, many people take vitamin is totally wasted.

He suggested that people take vitamin tablets before consulting a doctor or specialist.

Multivitamin tablets in the United Kingdom's major supermarkets, pharmacies and health food stores are able to buy.

Statistics show that the United Kingdom currently has 40% of women and 30% of the males take vitamin tablets.

More harm than good

Ratcliffe said that healthy people take vitamin tablets would not only bring significant benefits, but may produce some side effects.

United States researchers last year analysis of 67 studies concluded: Vitamin A and vitamin E and you cannot postpone aging, it will shorten the life of the people.

Other studies have shown that these two vitamins may increase the risk of cancer.

People in the short term intake too much vitamin A can produce symptoms such as nausea, headache, chronic can lead to decreased bone mineral density.

For example, at the same time taking fish oil and vitamin tablets for people suffering from osteoporosis will increase the possibility that, because the fish oil and vitamin tablets contain vitamin A, and taking it easy cause excessive.

An overdose of vitamin C Although not harmful to the human body, but three quarters are inability to absorb and white body.

Moreover, many people in the past that taking vitamin C tablets can prevent colds, but a recent study shows that vitamin C cannot prevent nose symptoms, only limited to shorten the time of symptom onset.

There are different theories

Ratcliffe said, people actually only need basic through three meals a day you can meet the needs of various vitamins.

Only some special populations need medication to supplementary nutrition. Such as the elderly need vitamin D, folic acid pregnant women need supplements, etc.

He believes that a healthy diet can help people with increasing vitamin intake.

But some pharmaceutical companies said that the official data shows that three-quarters of adults in the United Kingdom is not up to the "eat five or more vegetables and fruits" standard, and therefore may lack some essential vitamins and minerals.

United Kingdom health information center dieticians Kari-Crookston, improve eating habits is a long-term process.

During this period, taking health products can effectively help people increase the intake of vitamins and minerals.

Link: how to properly take vitamins

Now the shop is filled with a wide range of vitamin and mineral supplements, these supplements are sold, often through the omnipresent advertising.

But the world so far, on how to take vitamins and minerals to be nursed back to health human organism, have a more mature concept.

Especially on the intake of certain trace elements, no one can determine the most reasonable rates. The biggest difficulty is that the producers cannot identify users by age, sex, health, and living and working environment, etc.

Moreover, a healthy, no favoritism for many people there is no need to take vitamin.

Therefore, people should not be spending money on meaningless things above (taking improper but harmful).