NEJM STUDY "DOES NOT NECESSARILY UNDERMINE" ANTIOXIDANTS' ROLE
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
NEJM STUDY "DOES NOT NECESSARILY UNDERMINE" ANTIOXIDANTS' ROLE in "reducing the risk of some types of cancer," the Council for Responsible Nutrition said in a prepared response to the publication of a study in the July 21 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The 751-patient clinical study, conducted by Robert Greenberg, MD, Dartmouth Medical School, et al., found that regimens of beta carotene and vitamins C and E did not reduce the incidence of new colorectal polyps over four years.