Yet Another Study Says Vitamin Supplements Are Worthless

Vitamin -- the first four letters come from the Latin word for "life." To sustain that, we need these organic compounds in small amounts, but it seems their purpose ends there. New research reaffirms the counterintuitive notion that vitamin and mineral supplements aren't the magical panacea we've been led to believe. It's something that researchers have been finding for years, and a meta-analysis, summarizing the findings of 179 individual studies, published on Monday in the Journal of the