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BEWARE OF VITAMINS
Vitamins are good for our health, aren’t they? Perhaps not. New research suggests that rather than ward off disease, high doses of certain vitamins may (1)______________more harm than good and could even put you in an early grave. A variety of recent studies suggest that (2) ______________ from improving health, these vitamins, (3)______________taken in very high doses, may actually increase the risk of cancer and a range (4) ______________debilitating diseases, a discovery that has sent medical world into a spin.
Scientists are unsure (5) ______________to why vitamins, so essential to health, can be toxic in high doses. The most likely (6) ______________is that the body is only equipped to deal with the
levels found naturally in the environment. If the intake is too far above the normal range, then the body’s internal chemistry can be shunted out of alignment. (7) ______________this means is that the commercially sold vitamins and (8) ______________provided by nature are not always compatible.
The commercial forms may interfere with the body’s internal chemistry (9) ______________ ‘crowding out’ the (10) ______________ natural and beneficial forms of nutrients.