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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

I'm Steve Mersski. Got a minute?

Are you gobbling up antioxidants as part of your diet and nutrition regimen?

The benefits may be, well...

It seems surprising, but even after several decades, we don't have a clear answer.

There's not... If there were really across-the across the board powerful benefits, we would have seen it.

And that's not the situation.

Walter Willett, he chairs the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public

Health.

He spoke at a January 15th forum on cancer and diet that wound up touching on diet and health

in general.

The studies so far, randomized trials that have been done don't show much benefit.

There was actually a surprising increase in lung cancer with beta-carotene, one of the antioxidants,

in people who smoked and were heavy drinkers, although there was no increase in risk in people who were generally pretty

healthy to start with.

So even the randomized trials give different answers.

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