Selenium and Diabetes: More Bad News for Supplements

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VA study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that was designed to find if a popular supplement would help reduce the risk of developing type II diabetes found the opposite. The authors found instead that people who took 200 microgram selenium supplements each day for almost eight years had an increased risk of developing the disease.