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.html http://www.miamiferret.org/ http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html all ferret topics: http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html "All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow." (2010, Steve Crandall) [Posted in FML 6663]