Multivitamins Slash Lung Cancer Risk

Nothing delights me more than stickin’ it to natural health denying nudniks.  You know who they are, the buffoons that think we’re a bunch of baboons for believing vitamins can and do prevent diseases.

Well, the shoe is on the other foot now, isn’t it?  Because the latest study to refute the “multi” deniers says multivitamins reduce the risk for developing lung cancer.

Lung cancer accounts for more people dying per year from cancer than any other cancer.  In fact, in 2005 (the most recent year available for these types of statistics), lung cancer caused more deaths than breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer…combined!  That’s right, COMBINED!

The researchers discovered multivitamins’ might through the sampling of about 1,100 individual sputum samples (sputum is the more scientific term to use for what we like to call “spit”).

In these samples of spit, the researchers were looking for the methylation of gene patterns.  If they observed this, they could detect how at risk someone was for developing lung cancer.

(Yes, believe it or not, scientists can detect cancer risk through spit.  Who knew spit could say so much?)

Because all of the participants were current or former smokers, it wasn’t too surprising that they all exhibited a degree of gene methylation.  But what was surprising was that gene methylation was less pronounced in people who tried to eat healthfully or supplement with multivitamins regularly.

For example, in people that supplemented with a multivitamin, their risk of lung cancer development was 43 percent lower than those who never supplemented.  And for people that ate at least 12 servings of leafy green vegetables per month, their risk was 17 percent lower.

The researchers knew what the participants were taking and/or eating through food frequency questionnaires that they filled out prior to the samples being taken.

The study is published in the online version of the journal Cancer Research.

So there you have it, “multi” deniers:  A study published in a peer-reviewed journal that indicates multivitamins have some utility after all.  So jump aboard the multivitamin bandwagon.  There’s plenty of room.   You know you want to!

Should you decide to jump aboard, you may be curious as to what multivitamin is best.  There are lots of options, but personally, I use the multivitamin made by Nature’s Way.  It’s called “Alive!  Whole Food Energizer.”  If you want to find out more information on it, you can find it here.  I have no financial ties to Nature’s Way whatsoever.  I simply use it because I believe in the product and believe it to be the best multivitamin on the market today.

Sources
cdc.gov
nutraingredients.com
webwire.com