'Men Should Stop Taking Fish Oil and Other Vitamin E Supplements' US Researchers

This might look like a non story and neither is this a health blog but trust me, my sister's father in-law took this for many years, the researchers are for once very correct. I decided to share this because it just might save someone.

Men should not take high doses of vitamin E or selenium supplements because they have no health benefits and increase the risk of prostate cancer by up to a fifth, scientists have claimed.

Vitamin E, naturally found in nuts, spinach and broccoli, is taken to boost the body’s immune system and the mineral selenium, found in fish and meat, is taken to ward off heart disease.

But US researchers claim large doses of both can increase the risk of prostate cancer by 17 per cent.
Lead researcher Alan Kristal, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, said: ‘Men using these supplements should stop, period.