Vitamins and your heart
Do vitamin and mineral supplements really promote heart health? Some studies have suggested that calcium supplements have heart health benefits, and many have shown that fish oil is good for your heart, too. But calcium supplements have recently come under scrutiny following a report that men who took more than 1,000 milligrams of supplemental calcium daily over a 12-year period were 20% more likely to succumb to heart disease than those who didn’t take the pills. And while some studies have found that popping fish oil capsules lowers the chance of having a heart attack or other related problem, others have failed to find such benefits. |
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