Studies Conclude Vitamin E Reduces Heart Attack Risk:

Can eating peanuts reduce your risk of a heart attack? Well, if you eat enough of them. Vitamin E, found in peanuts, can play an important role in reducing heart disease cases, however, say reports released recently by the American Heart Association, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the New England Journal of Medicine. Food probably isn't the best source of vitamin E , however. Researchers recommend pill vitamin E supplements instead.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge in England conducted a study of 2,000 patients with heart disease. Consuming Vitamin E supplements reduced the disease by 75%, said Dr. Jan Breslow, American Heart Association president. "Now we can confidently say that Vitamin E protects against heart attacks, " said Professor Morris Brown, lead researcher on the Cambridge study. "I will be recommending that patients with angina and those who are at risk of heart disease should be given supplementary vitamin E at high dose, " he concluded.

A University of Minnesota School of Health study published in the New England Journal of Medicine and a National Institute of Aging (Bethesda, Md.) study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition both support these findings.

Supplements appear to be significantly healthier sources of Vitamin E than food, says the National Institute of Aging study. "Dietary sources high in vitamin E are often high in fat," says the study.

"To get 100 IU (international units) daily, a person would have to consume 7 cups of peanuts, 
2 cups of corn oil or 19 cups of spinach," it explained.

Vitamin E is also known as:      Alpha Tococpherol, D-tococpherol, Tococpherol, Mixed tococpherols