Why You Might Not Need Those Fish-Oil and Vitamin D Supplements You’re Taking

There’s a good chance that you are among the masses of Americans who take vitamin D and fish-oil pills, having heard that they prevent cancer and heart disease. Indeed, it’s estimated that more than one in four U.S. citizens age 60-plus take vitamin D supplements, and more than one in five takes ones with omega-3 fatty acids (a key fish-oil ingredient).

The research involved a major federally funded look at over 26,000 people and declared these pills don’t do what we hoped they did.

You may want to rethink your pill-taking practices because a huge study just found that these supplements neither lower cancer rates in healthy adults nor diminish the occurrence of heart attacks, strokes, and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease. The research involved a major federally funded look at over 26,000 people and declared these pills don’t do what we hoped they did.