Scientists Give An “A” To Vitamin E. Vitamin E is safe and offers well-documented benefits, scientists say.
At a recent conference, scientists that specialize in nutritional oils met to examine vitamin E, discuss recent scientific advances and answer questions raised by a highly publicized 2004 article in Annals of Internal Medicine. Their conclusion was that vitamin E is safe and offers well-documented health benefits.
The Hot Topics symposium at the American Oil Chemists Society annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, covered “extensive science supporting the role of various vitamin E constituents with careful evaluation and scientific discussion by the large audience of oil chemists,” said conference moderator Professor Ronald Watson, Ph.D., University of Arizona. Attendees also discussed recent research that has identified a group of components of natural vitamin E, the tocotrienols, which may be effective in treating strokes and for nerve regeneration.
In his presentation, Neil E. Levin, a Chicago area clinical nutritionist with an extensive background in vitamins, reviewed the large number of scientific studies showing that...