Despite the daily barrage of news reports and talk shows touting the latest “scientific” advance in antioxidants, we are still severely limited in the amount of good scientific evidence on which to make recommendations for doses of these nutrients that might ameliorate or prevent chronic diseases. That is not to say that we won’t ever have the information necessary for such recommendations. However, by the Winter of 2000, the Panel on Dietary Antioxidants and Related Nutrients of the Food & Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academies were not able to use chronic disease prevention as an adequate biomarker for nutrient recommendations. The Panel did recommend that the present studies be continued and new ones initiated to help answer the question as to the relationship between chronic diseases and the intake of vitamin C, vitamin E, selenium and the carotenoids. When adequate scientific data is presented, it will be time to re-evaluate the Panel’s recommendations.
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Keywords: Nutrition, Chronic Diseases
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