Vitamins pills can be more HARMFUL!!

Dangerous

To those millions who see vitamin supplements as part of their everyday effort to live a long and healthy life, such statements may seem incredible. Aren't vitamins by definition good for you? And don't they contain antioxidants, the natural remedy against dangerous 'free radicals', the little devils caused by oxidation and which have been linked to cell damage?

Well, that's the theory. But as Dr Paul Off it, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, pointed out last year in his myth-busting book Killing Us Softly: 'Although it's clear that free radicals can damage DNA and disrupt cell membranes, that's not always a bad thing. People need free radicals to kill bacteria and eliminate new cancer cells.