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最流行的維骨力一樣，吃太多其實因為軟骨增生過多，進而形成骨刺，所以維他命的相關藥品或食品，其實不能吃太多，天然的最好。 

芬蘭政府耗資4300萬美金所做的一個實驗，是全世界最大的維他命實驗，用了29000人，高達5－8年之時間，找集了20000多人（吸煙的人），讓他們每天吃維他命A與維他命E，另一組（控制組）則沒吃。 

過了5年，8年，發現每天吃維他命A與維他命E的這些人得到癌症、死於癌症的比率 高出18%。更重要的，他們發現現有吃維他命E的這些人得到心臟病、死於心臟病的比率比控制組高出50%。 

這樣一個報告出來以後，科學家們的臉不知要往哪擺！因為我們一直以為從小型實驗室的研究，不是發現維他命E能防止我們的血管硬化？應可以防止心臟病，為何在此一個大的實驗且是政府做的實驗，會給我們一個完全相反的效果！

此時美國的食品藥物管理署（FDA）就出來做解釋，Dr. Victor Herbert 他說：『當一個維他命含在一個橘子裡時，我們稱它為一個抗氧化劑（antioxidant），可以防止心臟病，防止癌症，對我們的身體是有好處的，但是當維他命C離開橘子以後，維他命C就稱為 prooxidant，也就會製造上億以上的自由基，此會造成心臟病、癌症對我們的身體是有害的』。所以，維他命本身有此兩種型態。橘子是神造，維他命C是人造的。人造的比不上神造。 

身為一個科學家，是絕對無法走進實驗是創造出一個橘子一粒蕃茄的。在一個橘子，一個蕃茄裡面，含有很多種的營養素，如今，我們連這一萬多種營養素，是那些營養素都不清楚，我們哪來的智慧與權利來告訴社會大眾，其中最重要的營養素是維他命呢？我們還沒有這樣一個智慧與權利。一個完整的食物才是真正的營養。 

我們人常常有一個比較不好的習慣，那就是任何我們聽不懂得名字，就會認為它比較好，台灣沒有的東西我們也會覺得它比較好一點。如廣告上新的化學名稱就會認為它比較好一點，例如：蛋白質、安基酸、酵素、抗氧化劑，此一系列各種各類的化學名稱，我們沒聽過的就認為它比較好，但對於我來說，我不認為它們不好，而是我比較關心我們如何把這些維他命C，從一個橘子裡拿出來？ 

讓我來問你一個問題：

你要喝有咖啡因的咖啡還是沒有咖啡因的咖啡？注意聽喔！不要喝有咖啡因的咖啡。因有咖啡因的咖啡會刺激中央神經系統的，心跳速度加快，還有會增加皺紋。 

但更不要喝沒有咖啡因的咖啡。因為把咖啡因拿出來要用一種化學藥品，此化學藥品已被證明為致癌的化學藥品，所以今日美國的衛生局已禁用，現在是用第二種的化學藥品。所以並不是咖啡因有多麼不好，而是如何把它拿出來的問題。 

今天美國的衛生局向國會提出一個專案，希望美國國會把維他命任何礦物質的東西列為藥品，讓所有的人無法在市面上自由的購買到。因為他們發現維他命帶來很多副作用，所以美國衛生印出很多的小冊子上面寫著：「美國每年有30000多個兒童在母親認為維他命沒有副作用而大量給小孩吃，結果導致中毒現象。今天維他命的使用量是依大人的量而定，而非依小孩來定，所以小孩吃是過量的。」 

另外，當我們體內有過多的維他命C時，血液的鐵質會上升，很容易得到心臟病和癌症。同時我們也發現過多的維他命E會造成關節炎。過多維他命D會造成肝的受損。過多的維他命B12會造成中央神經系統的損壞。

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看了這篇文章,在國外有另外一種不同的看法

Recently, a now-famous beta carotene-cancer study from Finland hit the front pages of many newspapers and magazines. The newspaper articles warned that beta carotene might cause cancer and that people should not be so willing to take nutritional supplements because they may be dangerous. These newspaper reports and magazine articles were based on a study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine on April 14, 1994. The study was entitled "The Effect of Vitamin E and Beta Carotene on the Incidence of Lung Cancer and Other Cancers in Male Smokers." Although carried out in Finland, the study was co-sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and paid for largely with your tax dollars.

In this study, more than 29,000 middle-aged men, who smoked over a pack a day for an average of 36 years each, were divided into four groups and followed for five to eight years. One group received daily dosages of 20mg (or 33,000 units) of synthetic beta carotene. A second group received 50mg of synthetic vitamin E, in the form of dl-alpha tocopherol acetate. A third group received both of these supplements. And, finally, a fourth group received a placebo.

The results of the study indicated a significant 18% increase in incidence of lung cancer in the participants receiving beta carotene. Although, fewer cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed among those who received vitamin E than those who did not, this point was not emphasized in the news accounts.

What were the flaws in the study? There were many. The study used only 1/8th to 1/40th the dosage of Vitamin E shown by more than 20 previous studies to lower the risk of lung cancer in smokers. It used only 1/10th the dosage of beta-carotene recommended by other experts for the prevention of lung cancer in smokers. It used as subjects people from Finland despite the fact that both the British Medical Journal and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition consider Finland one of the worst countries in the world for cancer/nutrition studies since: (1) Finns have one of the world's highest rates of per capita alcohol consumption by smokers, and alcohol interferes with the utilization of Vitamin E and beta carotene, and (2) Finland has an extremely low level of the essential mineral selenium in the soil, and selenium works together with vitamin E in promoting cancer prevention.

A previous, much less publicized recent study, carried out in China with National Cancer Institute cooperation, included 50 micrograms of selenium, along with 30 mg of vitamin E and 15mg of beta carotene. This study involved 30,000 people over the age of 40, who were either healthy or suffered from the premalignant lesion, esophageal dysplasia. Those who received the combination of these three nutrients had a significantly lower risk of dying from cancer and other diseases.

Other criticisms of the study include the fact that the study started immediately after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which occurred in 1986, and Finland was one of the first areas to receive heavy fallout. This variable increases cancer risk and makes the jobs of these low levels of antioxidants more difficult. The form of vitamin E was the less potent synthetic dl-alpha tocopherol rather than the physiologic d-alpha tocopherol form. And all of the supplements were colored with quiniline yellow, a substance with known carcinogenic properties.

The authors themselves were careful to point out that no other studies have ever shown any harm from taking beta carotene, whereas many studies have shown beneficial effects. In addition, there are no known mechanisms for toxic effects of beta carotene. There overall conclusion was: "In spite of its formal statistical significance, therefore, this finding may well be due to chance."

You would never know this from the media circus accounts of the study. The universal message, received by many of my patients and the general population, was that vitamins, particularly beta carotene, cause cancer. I hope that this information clears up some of the confusion.

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過去研究中發現服用Vitaman E可以降低抽煙者得到肺癌的機率,為何芬蘭這篇研究與過去截然不同,原因如下

1.在芬蘭抽煙者有極大比率都是愛好喝酒,酒精會影響Vitaman E和ß-胡蘿蔔素的利用率

2.芬蘭的土壤缺乏晒,晒和Vitaman E在一起會提升防癌的機率

之前在中國大陸找了超過40歲的30000位中年人服用50 微克的晒, 30 mg Vitaman E和15 mg  ß-胡蘿蔔素,這些人有很健康也有身體相當不好,營養不良等等的人存在

這些人服用了這三種營養品之後.確實降低生病和罹癌的機率

在1986年,車諾比(Chernobyl)核能災害,大量的幅射線灰塵落在芬蘭.這個也可能是導致癌症增加率的原因之一