“Well, hardly, but a ’shocking’ report in the Journal of the American Medical Association says so. [Journal American Medical Assn 297: 842-57, Feb. 28, 2007] A pooled analysis of 68 published studies says the mortality rate was insignificantly affected by antioxidant supplementation (vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin A, beta carotene and selenium), but the headlines will say otherwise, pointing to a group of 47 better-quality studies within the 68 which showed a relative 16% increase in mortality rates (range 5% to 29%), even claiming the slight insignificant increase in mortality poses a substantial risk to supplement users.” (02/27/07)