Vitamin E and You Smokers

I am dead set against cigarette smoking of any kind.of dying from it by forty one per cent. Quite amazing I
Those of you that know me know how I feel aboutwould say, wouldn't you?
the risk you take when you smoke. So I created thisNow more recently another study of more than
article with trepidation, fearing I may be creating a29,000 men found that smokers who took more than
situation where some of you may think that I have400 IU of vitamin E each day for eight years actually
changed my opinion. I have not, but this informationcut their prostate cancer risk by 71 per cent compared
may possibly save someone's life therefore I decidedto smokers who did not take this vitamin E. This study
to write this article.also states that it had no affect on you non smokers.
It seems that in a study that was designed to look atThat is odd by my standards but only smokers and
your antioxidants and your lung cancer, thesmokers who had quit in the last ten years are the
researchers found that vitamin E was of no help toonly ones protected by vitamin E relative to your
you in preventing your lung cancer. The group doingprostate cancer. It seems to have no effect on you
the study took it in supplements.non smokers. The studies have shown that the vitamin
However, for those that were in this study that wereE must be taken with food in ranges from 50 to 400
smokers and for those that took about fifty milligramsIU every day.
(just about 75 IU) every day, it helped reduce their riskHowever if you have uncontrolled high blood pressure
of prostate cancer. So it did not help you non smokersor take anti coagulant medications you should not take
to prevent lung cancer but it turns out to be of a greatit without close medical supervision because of your
benefit to you smokers.risk to stroke or hemorrhage. And as always you
It cut their risk of getting this prostate cancer by aboutmust eat well to be well.
thirty three per cent and drastically reduced their risk