Afraid of Prostate Cancer? All Your Vitamins Won't Help You!
Lately, you learned at the SuppVersity that Broccoli has preventive effect against prostate cancer , now a new report by Beilby et.al. ( Belby. 2010 ) reviews the results of previous studies (cf. figure 1) which suggest that folate, beta crotene, vitamin A and vitamin E might be beneficial, as well. Table 1: Baseline characteristics of cases and controls ( Belby. 2010. Table 1 ) The results of their survey is however disillusioning: we report null associations for serum concentrations of β-carotene vitamin A and vitamin E , and subsequent development of prostate cancer. Before you throw away all those pills now, remember that "null association" means that it won't hurt you either ;-)