Persons eager to boost their health by consuming megadoses of vitamins C, E and D may be doing more harm than good,
a fifth estate investigation into the vitamins and supplements industry reveals.
"When people walk into the dietary supplement or vitamin store, they think that everything is just perfectly safe," says Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a bestselling author.
But he is alarmed at the daily high doses people are taking.
"There are studies that show that if you take a megavitamin you actually can hurt yourself. You actually can increase your risk of cancer, increase your risk of heart disease," he says.
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