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The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) claims today that the latest study which claims to show that multivitamin supplements don’t prevent cancer or heart disease, is a waste of public money. These funds, says the ANH, could be much more usefully spent on aspects of preventative medicine where a positive result was more likely.

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