There is a new Swedish human study (35,000 women) which suggests a 19%
increase in rates of breast malignancies seen among human women who
take multivitamins daily.
We all know by now that some malignancies are better at gobbling up
nutrients than normal cells (which is one of many reasons why the new
discipline of oncological nutrition has been born), and that the body
develops such malignant cells as variations of its own normal cells
regularly throughout life but the body usually can kill them off.
Right now there is way too little info to know for sure what may be
going on, but wouldn't it be something if over-nourishing with vitamins
creates a situation in which the body is less able to kill the early
cells when a malignancy is young, increasing the rates of some problems
by unknown percentages?
If so, might generosity with vitamin pastes, gels, or oils for our
ferrets be counter-productive?
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/http://ferrethealth.org/archive/http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.htmlhttp://www.miamiferret.org/http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/http://www.ferretcongress.org/http://www.trifl.org/index.shtmlhttp://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
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"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
[Posted in FML 6663]
