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New Findings Regarding Vitamin E By: Christy Feig, CNN November 13, 2004 A healthy diet is high in antioxidants like vitamin E. Nutritionist Annette Carpenter of Washington Hospital Center said, "Nuts, seeds, legumes, leafy greens, oils, any type of fats." They boost the body's ability to protect cells from damage that could lead to certain diseases. Dr. Ramin Oskoui of the Washington Hospital Center said, "It might be helpful for Parkinson's and that patients who took diets that were high in Vitamin E had increase heart benefits." It only takes 200 international units a day to get those benefits. But in the store vitamin E supplements are generally sold in 200, 400 or even 1000 international units. So researchers at Johns Hopkins studied whether daily doses that high would be even more beneficial. Instead they found the exact opposite. Dr. Eliseo Guallar of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health said, "High doses of vitamin E supplements increase mortality instead of decreasing it. For people taking 400 international units a day, we estimated that they had between four- to six-percent increase in mortality." At doses lower than 150 international units a day, they found no bad effects. The researchers aren't sure yet why high doses of vitamin E increases risk of death, but think it has something to do with increasing the risk of bleeding and hemorrhagic strokes. WATCH THE VIDEO The lowdown on vitamin E A new study said more vitamin E may not be better when it comes to the supplement SOURCE: Capital News 9, NY http://tinyurl.com/6wxma * * * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn