Beta-carotene: now the good news

Beta carotene supplements may cause cancer

Very high doses of beta carotene supplements may be cancer causing, as two earlier, and controversial studies had concluded. Diets that are rich in fo...

Beta carotene: studies must take a wider view

Your leader in the September newsletter "Of Strokes and Smokers" about the beta carotene studies (WDDTY vol 7 no 6) bought up some important issues re...

The real problem with beta-carotene

I read with interest your Updates (WDDTY, vol 9, no 12) about the findings of beta-carotene and cancer, which I am already familiar with, but feel to...

Beta-carotene is good for veins

Atherosclerosis where fats narrow the main arteries, sometimes leading to a heart attack can be helped by taking beta-carotene, new research has disco...

Of strokes and smokers

Stroke is the third biggest killer in the West. The most frustrating aspect of this statistic is that it concerns a disease which is entirely preventa...

Children of smokers face increased cancer risk children of smokers fa

Almost one-fifth of lung cancers among non-smokers result from a high level of exposure to cigarette smoke during childhood and adolescence.