[ExI] Once again: Some vitamins don't help in large doses

[Michael LaTorra]

Vitamins Found to Curb Exercise Benefits
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: May 11, 2009

If you exercise to improve your metabolism and prevent diabetes, you may
want to avoid antioxidants like vitamins C and E.
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“If you exercise to promote health, you shouldn’t take large amounts of
antioxidants,” Dr. Ristow said. A second message of the study, he said, “is
that antioxidants in general cause certain effects that inhibit otherwise
positive effects of exercise, dieting and other interventions.” The findings
appear in this week’s issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
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*Read entire article at:*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/health/research/12exer.html?em
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