Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Published: October 17, 2012
After a series of conflicting reports about whether vitamin pills can stave off chronic disease, researchers announced on Wednesday that a large clinical trial of nearly 15,000 older male physicians followed for more than a decade found that those taking a daily multivitamin experienced 8 percent fewer cancers than the subjects taking dummy pills.
While many studies have focused on the effects of high doses of particular vitamins or minerals, like calcium and vitamin D, this clinical trial examined whether Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, December 27, 2010
Personally, I’ve enjoyed the chocolate and strawberry flavored placebos.
Placebos help, even when patients know about them
Wed Dec 22, 2010
5:50PM EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Placebos can help patients feel
better, even if they are fully aware they are taking a sugar pill, according to researchers who reported Wednesday on an unusual experiment aimed at better understanding the “placebo effect.”
Researchers reported in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE that nearly 60 percent of patients with Irritable bowel syndrome reported they felt better after …Click here to see if you feel better too!…
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