Jama Article Urges All Adults to Take Daily Multivitamin Posted: 05-09-06 20:56pm
Jama article urges all adults to take
daily multivitamin
19 june 2002 - by wyn snow, managing
editor
drs. Kathleen m. Fairfield and robert
h. Fletcher, of harvard medical school
in boston ma, recommend that all adults
take a daily multivitamin. Their
two-part report appears in the june 19th
issue of the journal of the american
medical association.
Fairfield and fletcher reviewed studies of
relationships between vitamin intake and
various diseases published between 1966
and 2002. They conclude that suboptimal
levels of vitamin intake are associated
with increased risk of contracting a
variety of chronic diseases, including
cancer and heart disease. This is true
even when intakes are high enough to
prevent classical symptoms of deficiency
diseases like scurvy, beriberi and
rickets.
