Antioxidants do not prevent degenerative eye disease

Save those fruits and nuts for funtime. From

http://www.physorg.com/news111143344.html

released yesterday:

> They identified 11 studies (seven prospective studies and three randomised controlled trials) involving 149,203 people. A range of common dietary antioxidants were investigated and all the studies were carried out amongst well nourished Western populations with an average follow-up period of nine years.
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> Importantly, all the studies adjusted for age and smoking in their analyses.
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> The antioxidants investigated differed across studies, but when results were pooled they showed that vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc, lutein, zeaxanthin, alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin and lycopene have little or no effect in the primary prevention of early age-related macular degeneration.
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> None of the three trials found antioxidant supplements to be protective in the primary prevention of early age related macular degeneration.

I'm sure the vitamin lobby, the health food stores and the homo-naturopaths
will take exception to this statistically significant result.