{"id":89340,"date":"2019-04-09T05:02:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/nutrients-from-food-not-supplements-linked-to-lower-risks-of-death-cancer"},"modified":"2019-04-09T05:02:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T12:02:21","slug":"nutrients-from-food-not-supplements-linked-to-lower-risks-of-death-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/nutrients-from-food-not-supplements-linked-to-lower-risks-of-death-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Nutrients from food, not supplements, linked to lower risks of death, cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nutrients-from-food-not-supplements-linked-to-lower-risks-of-death-cancer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the association between nutrient intake and the risk of death, the researchers found:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Adequate intake of certain nutrients is associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality when the nutrient source is foods, but not supplements, according to a new study. There was no association between dietary supplement use and a lower risk of death.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, excess calcium intake was linked to an increased risk of cancer death, which the researchers found was associated with supplemental doses of calcium exceeding 1,000 mg\/day. The study was published on April 9 in Annals of Internal Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs potential benefits and harms of supplement use continue to be studied, some studies have found associations between excess nutrient intake and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/adverse+outcomes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">adverse outcomes<\/a>, including increased risk of certain cancers,\u201d said Fang Fang Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nutrition.tufts.edu\">Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University<\/a> and senior and corresponding author on the study. \u201cIt is important to understand the role that the nutrient and its source might play in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/health+outcomes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">health outcomes<\/a>, particularly if the effect might not be beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-04-nutrients-food-supplements-linked-death.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the association between nutrient intake and the risk of death, the researchers found: Adequate intake of certain nutrients is associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality when the nutrient source is foods, but not supplements, according to a new study. There was no association between dietary supplement use and a lower risk of death. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}