Vitamins Fight Cancer: E, A, D and B6

VITAMIN E PREVENTS LUNG CANCER

News Media Virtually Silent on Positive Vitamin Research

Researchers at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center have found that taking more vitamin E substantially reduces lung cancer. Their new study shows that people consuming the highest amounts of vitamin E had the greatest benefit. When they compared persons taking the most vitamin E with those taking the least, there was a 61% reduction in lung cancer risk. (1)

Lung cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer on earth; over 1.3 million people are diagnosed with it each year. With medical treatment, survival rates are “consistently poor,” says Cancer Research UK. Lung cancer kills nearly 1.2 million per year. It accounts for 12% of all cancers, but results in 18% of all cancer deaths. (2) Anything that can reduce these dismal facts is important news . . .very important. Yet the mainstream media have virtually ignored vitamin E’s important role as a cancer fighter.

A sixty-one percent reduction in lung cancer with vitamin E? How could the news media have missed this one?

The news media probably did not miss it: they simply did not report it. They are biased. You can see for yourself what bias there is. Try a “Google” search for any of the major newspapers or broadcast media, using the name of the news organization along with the phrase “vitamin E lung cancer.” When you do, you will find that it will quickly bring up previous items alleging that vitamin E might (somehow) increase cancer risk. You will find little or nothing at all on how vitamin E prevents cancer. Indeed, the bias is so strong that even a qualified search for “increased vitamin E reduces lung cancer” will still, and preferentially, bring up media coverage alleging that vitamin E is harmful. Negative reporting sells newspapers and pulls in viewing audiences. The old editors' adage must still be true: “If it bleeds, it leads.”

Read the full article by Andrew Saul here.