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People who take multiple dietary supplements have far better health than
those who only take a single multivitamin or no supplements at all. In an
extensive study published in the Nutrition Journal, researchers from
Berkeley University sent questionnaires to 1200 persons who had been
regular users of dietary supplements over the past 20 years. 278
respondents were randomly selected for further blood tests and blood
pressure measurements.
The collected data from the tests and questionnaires were the compared
to similar data from 176 people who took a daily multivitamin pill and
602 people who did not take any supplements. The three groups were
adjusted in advance for income, education, BMI and gender. The study
showed that the group of multiple supplement users had significantly
lower bio-markers associated with disease risk such as cholesterol,
homocysteine, triglycerides and blood pressure and, subsequently, lower
risk for diabetes, stroke and other cardiac diseases.
Also, the multi-supplement group had optimal concentrations of different
nutrients and had a better self-evaluated health status compared to the
two other groups.
(Source: Block et al., Nutrition Journal 2007, 6:30.)
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