Cancer - and Bayer vitamins

Take it for what it's worth. The following from CSPI:

If you are a man over 50, you've likely seen ads for Bayer One A Day men's multivitamins that claimed the mineral selenium helps reduce risk of prostate cancer or otherwise promotes "prostate health."

There's a big problem however: It's not true.

In fact, for most men, taking too much selenium may actually promote more aggressive forms of prostate cancer. And, previous studies warned against supplementing with selenium since men taking selenium developed more cases of diabetes than men in control groups who did not.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has threatened Bayer with a lawsuit over those claims, and just last month, asked the Food and Drug Administration to seize existing stockpiles of One A Day Men's Health Formula and One A Day Men's 50+ Advantage.

As CSPI senior nutritionist David Schardt said at the time, "Bayer is exploiting men's fear of prostate cancer just to sell more pills." And, a group of some of the most prominent prostate cancer researchers in the country wrote that "Bayer Healthcare is doing a disservice to men by misleading them about a protective role for selenium in prostate cancer."