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Taking too much vitamins is not good after all!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 6:25PM
Everything ought to be taken in moderation, and it certainly also applies to taking vitamins. Read this article.
Taking vitamins after exercise may undo some of the beneficial effects of the workout, research suggests.
Some advocate taking antioxidants like vitamin C and E to help protect the body from harmful chemical by-products it creates in breaking into a sweat.
But German scientists now believe these "free radicals" may actually be good for us and even buffer against diabetes, PNAS reports.
And mopping them up with antioxidants may do more harm than good.