Vitamins are beneficial for your health – no medical officials are denying that. Many are encouraged to take vitamin supplements to compensate for the vitamins they can no longer get from food, from different reasons.

Consequently, millions of Americans are trying to stay healthy – or healthier – by taking vitamins. Despite the obvious benefits, these vitamin supplements do not reduce one’s chances of developing heart diseases, breast cancer or having strokes. This information is the result of two large, very important studies that were just published today.

It is enough to say that one of the studies was comprised of 14,641 middle-aged male physicians to understand the range of the study. The men were required to take vitamins E and C for about eight years. After the study was completed, the researchers noticed that the vitamins had no significant positive effect on the cardiovascular system.

The second study was even larger, as 36,282 postmenopausal women were the subjects of the study. They were instructed to consume both vitamin D and calcium on a daily basis for a period of roughly seven years. At the end of the study, the scientists concluded that the vitamin and the calcium had no preemptive effect on the development of invasive breast cancer.

These studies were prompted by the amount of people who were advised to take medicine not only for their regular health but specifically to help prevent the development of heart attacks or breast cancer. Other studies, less widespread and shorter time-wise, had even explicitly said that an intake of vitamin D supplements reduce the risk of developing breast cancer.