Vitamin E supplements(补充品)，which millions take in the hope of longer, healthier lives, may do more harm than good, researchers reported on Wednesday.
In fact, people taking high doses(剂量)of vitamin E may in some cases be more likely to die earlier, although the reasons are not clear, said Dr. Edgar Miller of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who led the study.“I think people take vitamin E because they think it is going to make you live longer, but this(study)doesn’t support that.”Miller told reporters.
Miller and colleagues reanalyzed 19 studies of vitamin E and health between 1993 and 2004. The tests involved more than 136,000 mostly elderly patients in North America, Europe and China. People who took 200 international units of vitamin E a day or more died at a higher rate during the study, which lasted three years, than people who did not take supplements, they told a meeting of the American Heart Association.“It’s about a 5 percent increased risk at 45 years in the tests combined together，”Miller said.“That doesn’t sound like a lot but if you apply it to 25 percent of the (U.S.)adult population taking vitamin E, that is significant.”
Miller, whose findings are also being published online by the Annals of Internal Medicine, said twothirds of people who take vitamin E supplements take 400 IU or more.“We don’t think that people need to take vitamin E supplements, which they can get enough from the diet,”he said. Nuts, oils, whole grains and green leafy vegetables are all rich in vitamin E.
小题1: People take vitamin E supplements, hoping that________.
A．they can lose weight easily
B．they may live a longer and healthier life
C．they can get more and more beautiful
D．they no longer need any medicine小题2: The following statements can give us information about Miller EXCEPT_________.
A．Miller and his team based their research on 19 cases of vitamin E and health between 1993 and 2004
B．Miller thinks it unnecessary for people to take vitamin E supplements
C．Miller supposes it impossible for people to get enough vitamin E from their diets
D．Miller played an important role in the tests conducted by the researchers小题3: Which of the following contains rich vitamin E?
A．Nuts.
B．Whole grains.
C．Green leafy vegetables.
D．All of the above.小题4: What is this text mainly about?
A．It is reported in a study that vitamin E may do more harm than good to people to live longer and get healthier.
B．Dr.Edgar Miller and his colleagues studied many cases of vitamin E and health.
C．Dr.Edgar Miller advises that people should not depend on vitamin E supplements for longer and healthier lives.
D．People who took 200 international units of vitamin E a day or more died at a higher rate than people who did not take supplements.
