Is there any benefit from taking multivitamins?

From the Johns Hopkins Medical Letter, October 2009

Research has not been kind to multivitamin (and mineral) supplements. Most recently, data on over 161,000 participants enrolled in the landmark Women’s Health Inititative study revealed that women who regularly took multivitamins for approximately eight years were no less likely to develop breast, colon, and several other cancers or suffer a heart attack or stroke than women who did not take multivitamins.

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