Guest Post Courtesy of the Progressive Health Blog
Research suggests that a daily multivitamin supplement is beneficial for most adults and is the foundation of a nutritional supplementation program. Daily multi supplementation may be necessary for people at higher risk for vitamin deficiency such as the elderly, vegetarians, alcohol users, pregnant women, and individuals with malabsorption diseases.
Now research reports that multivitamin use is linked with a reduced risk of heart attack in women with no history of heart disease. The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , investigated the association of multivitamin supplementation and the risk of heart attack (myocardial infarction) in women. Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, analyzed data of 31,671 women with no history of heart disease and 2,262 women with heart disease enrolled in the Swedish Mammography Cohort between 1987 and 1990.
Dietary questionnaires were obtained from the participants in 1997 and analyzed for supplement use. The ten year follow up found that 932 heart attacks occurred in participants with no heart disease history and 269 heart attacks occurred in those with heart disease. The researchers found that participants with no heart disease history who reported mulivitamin use had a 27 percent lower risk of heart attack, compared to nonusers.Enrich your life and the lives of others by learning Aromatherapy, Reflexology or Color/Crystal Therapy at the Alternative Healing Academy! Convenient and easy-to-handle payment plans are available!
