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Should you take vitamins?

Medical experts have been proclaiming that vitamin and mineral supplements are a waste of time and money.

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

Millions of Americans take vitamins and minerals to stay healthy.

An editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine

decreed, enough is enough, pointing to studies showing that vitamin supplements did not prevent

heart disease or dementia. One of the country's leading experts on the evidence behind dietary

supplements suggests that we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater. We'll also explore

the safety of a daily low-dose aspirin regimen. Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Dr. Taroni

Lodog tells us who may benefit from vitamins and will take your calls and questions.

First, this news.

In the people's pharmacy health headlines,

the Food and Drug Administration is warning against using aspirin to prevent initial heart attacks.

The agency has just rejected a request by the Bayer Company to modify its aspirin label so that healthy people could take the drug

to lower their risk of a cardiac event or a stroke. Not only did the FDA refuse the label change,

but the feds went so far as to caution the American public against using aspirin as a routine preventive medication.

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