Beta Carotene and Smoking

 Beta Carotene and Smoking
Recent studies have shown that smoking and taking Beta Carotene supplements do not go together. Beta Carotene is an antioxidant, which means that inactivates free radicals in the body. In the process it oxidizes and can become a kind of pro-oxidant or form oxidized by the product. Usually we do not have to worry about the product by the behavior of antioxidants Beta Carotene's. If you maintain a healthy diet with a variety of antioxidants they will work in combination to protect one another from oxidation.

It appears that smokers on the other side has something to worry about. Two studies ended in the nineties found that people who smoked at least a pack a day or drank higher than the average amount of alcohol and took Beta Carotene or Vitamin A supplements are at higher risk for developing lung cancer and higher risk died. Each experiment showed that Beta Carotene was not helping many of the participants smoked and was injured several of them. The first session is called Alpha-Tocopheral, Beta Carotene Cancer Prevention Trial showed eighteen percent more lung cancer and eight percent more deaths in male smokers who took 20mg of Beta Carotene. The second session is called Beta Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial (caret) preliminary results indicate that there are 28 percent more lung cancer in smokers and former smokers group has taken the Beta Carotene and vitamin A and seventeen percent more deaths. These results are very similar to the Cancer Prevention Trial final results that they told the participants to stop taking the supplements before the trial is scheduled to expire.

Why is that? Well, because it is thought that anti-oxidants to protect one another from oxidation scientists suspect that smokers do not have enough of another type of antioxidant vitamins in their system to prevent this from happening. It has been found that smokers had lower levels of vitamin C in their bloodstream and that is' one of the antioxidants. So Beta Carotene oxidizing in the body after using up nature of antioxidants that apply to damage or exacerbate the damage free radicals do to cells of smokers' lungs that cause abnormal cell growth and cancer. With low levels of other types of antioxidants in their bodies there's nothing to stop it. The scientists believe that the two antioxidants that work together to protect the body from damage pro-oxidant Beta Carotene is a vitamin E and C.

If you are a smoker does not mean you should try to avoid or Beta Carotene Vitamin A in your diet. The trials appear to indicate that all anti-oxidants work together to prevent cancer and one isolate or the other for consumption, particularly in the form of non-natural, simply negate the effects and sometimes cause problems. What you should do is focus on eating more foods with antioxidants in combination. There is no current evidence that suggests eating a diet with Beta Carotene in them can increase the risk of cancer in smokers.

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